[MLton] mingwows
Matthew Fluet
fluet@cs.cornell.edu
Fri, 14 Oct 2005 08:43:12 -0400 (EDT)
> On Oct 14, 2005, at 8:29 AM, Daniel C. Wang wrote
>> 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.
>
> Unfortunately, SFU requires XP/NT Pro and NTFS.
> If you have 'home', it doesn't work. Ditto for FAT.
Also, IIRC, SFU does not allow you to call Win32 API functions. That is,
it's the microkernel idea: either you run under the SFU kernel or you run
under the Win32 kernel, and all of the services of the other are
unavailable.