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No, it doesn't. OP meant that the Rust support on Cygwin is bad; it is better with the native Windows API.
by Kwpolska 1y ago
No, it doesn't. OP meant that the Rust support on Cygwin is bad; it is better with the native Windows API.
- IshKebab 1y agoCygwin is an ugly hack anyway.
- sunshowers 1y agoI don't quite understand. Why use a janky, lossy Linux emulation layer when you can just target Windows natively?
- GoblinSlayer 1y agoFor some reason git for windows is a cygwin build.
- 1718627440 1y agoBecause git expects a POSIX API and POSIX tools and also POSIX behaviour like symlinks and line-endings to do its job.
- lazka 1y agoIt's a native build. Only various tools it is shipped with are cygwin builds, like bash etc.
- GoblinSlayer 1y agoOh, indeed, but git often calls them.
- 1718627440 1y agoGit for Windows uses MSYS2, which is a mix of a Cygwin fork and MinGW, the implementation of the Win32 APIs for Linux.