[MLton] mingwows

[Daniel C. Wang]

http://www.vnunet.com/itweek/news/2085547/unix-beef-longhorn
More detals on SFUs future.

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.
>
> 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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