[NTLUG:Discuss] OT: Porting Question

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dmyhand610 wrote:

> Ralph Green, Jr wrote:
>   I will try going the cygwin route.  I had not thought of that.  
> Thanks, Dennis

Can I recommend you go the MinGW route with either MSYS or MINGStudio?  
If you develop or port under Cygwin, you'll more than likely need the 
cygwin1.dll binary, and you can't freely redistribute it, thanks to 
RedHat's licensing of the dll, unless you are including all sources with 
your program (completely GPL).  That may or may not matter to you.  If 
you develop under MinGW, you will need the mingwm10.dll, but that is a 
public domain .dll that you can distribute with your ported Windows 
program without licensing restrictions.