[MLton] mingwows

[Daniel C. Wang]

If you want full POSIX support then SFU 3.5 is better than cygwin. It 
avoids the GPL issues and is now a free download.

http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=5751
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/4201
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/sfu/default.mspx

There are rumors that it will start shipping standard with Windows Server.


Wesley W. Terpstra wrote:

> In Oct 13, 2005, at 5:38 PM, Daniel C. Wang wrote:
>
>> So. i forget exactly how mingwing and cyngwin relate, but doesn't  
>> cygwin ship with the headers tool and runtime to let you build  
>> mingwin apps.
>
>
> Yeah, cygwin includes some strange mutation of MinGW.
> I personally just use the 'official' MinGW distro instead.
>
>> If so I'd suggest we ditch the "native" cygiwn build and only  
>> support a cygwin or msys build of a native migwin app.
>
>
> Cygwin has fork and other UNIXisms.
> These are then available to SML.
> For the MinGW build, some POSIX methods are just missing.
> So, I am not sure dropping cygwin is really an option.
>
> The main benefit of MinGW is that it is a native windows app.
> (No path emulation, no cygwin.dll, etc)
>
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