GCC on Cygwin coexisting with MinGW

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It is possible to have two versions of GCC to coexist: the native windows MinGW version and the cygwin linux version? Things get problematic when on Cygwin the system tries to compile with the MinGW version of GCC, and vice versa. How can I keep both versions of GCC?

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