What is the difference between Cygwin and MinGW?

Posted by Lukasz Lew on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by Lukasz Lew
Published on 2009-04-21T09:16:37Z Indexed on 2010/05/01 22:57 UTC
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I want to make my C++ project cross platform, and I'm considering using Cygwin/MinGW. But what is the difference between them?

Another question is whether I will be able to run the binary on a system without Cygwin/MinGW?

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