If I could ++ you more than once for suggesting MinGW and MSYS, I would do that ... but don't get too excited - the only good things about the Cygwin project are that:
a) it produced MSYS;
b) it's possible to cross-compile on Cygwin for native Win32 (but why would one bother when one can simply build for native Win32 using MSYS anyway)
And I take issue (but in a totally non-hostile way) with the notion that MSYS is a "light-weight option".
Note that Strawberry Perl comes with *most* of MinGW (g77 is missing, as someone recently complained) ... so it's really just a case of recommending Strawberry Perl plus MSYS :-)
Cheers,
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Don't you realise that the very reason for the existance of Perl is the total inadaquacy of *nix "command line environments".
Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.
"Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority".
In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.
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I think you never really tried a modern Unix shell like zsh, tcsh or bash. Otherwise I cannot understand why you are saying this.
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Ladies and gentlemen, the year is only 7 days old and we already have a winner in the Trolling competition!
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