RE: [FR-devel] freeride and the thread fix

[Curt Hibbs]

Laurent Julliard wrote:
>
> Another naive question: why Windows users prefer the MSWIN build over
> the Cygwin build?

Cygwin has lots of problems. Most come up when you try to run multiple
applications that use Cygwin.

Mingw looks like a very good choice over cygwin and still provides unix
compatibility. I'm not sure why mingw was not chosen.

Curt