From: mathew holton <mathew.holton_at_zirconsoftware.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2006 08:55:25 +0000

I suggest you install Linux (Debian is really easy) and use that. I
started off using cygwin and found it painfully slow (on my PIII 600)
but after installing Debian, everything worked much faster and was more
enjoyable.


Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Mar 2006, roolku wrote:
>
>> I am working on a plugin in a cygwin h120 sim and I am tired of
>> waiting for make to find out that nothing else has changed apart from
>> the plugin itself.
>
> The build system (and everything else) is dead slow on cygwin because
> the file system/handling is extremely slow in cygwin.
>
>> So I just want to compile that single c file. For that purpose I
>> added a new target to the makefile in my build directory like this:
>
> If you really want to venture down that road I wish you good luck but
> I don't feel like spending much of _my_ time on it.
>
Received on 2006-03-03