[MLton-user] mingw or cygwin

[Matthew Fluet]

> The Cygwin mlton binary is run from the Cygwin shell and produces
> executables that require the cygwin dll.  The MinGW mlton binary is
> run from the Windows Command Shell (or whatever it's called) and
> produces executables that run standalone, without the cygwin dll.  The
> MinGW basis is somewhat impoverished, mostly (perhaps exclusively) in
> terms of the Posix structure.  A number of functions in the Posix
> structure will raise SysErr.

Should also point out that a number of the functions in the OS structure 
are implemented in terms of Posix structure functions, so these are also 
unavailabe in MinGW.