Cygwin/mingw: Intro & Diffs & Notes

Firstly, compile something with cygwin is to compile something for cygwin1.dll, compile something with mingw is compile something for windows.

Here list some packages must be installed by cygwin/mingw:

automake, automake-wrapper, autoconf, autogen?, libtool, gcc, g++ make; msys-base

in cmd, install mingw pkgs with:

mingw-get install ..

also in cygwin from github we have a tool apt-cyg.

apt-cyg install ..