Cygwin VS MinGW - Compare Differences & Reviews?

Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Cygwin seems to be a lot more popular than MinGW. While we know about 12 links to Cygwin, we've tracked only 1 mention of MinGW. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Cygwin mentions (12)

• dotnet cross-platform interop with C via Environment.ProcessId system call

  Altough, built-in libc on Windows doesn't support POSIX API and dotnet uses WinAPI instead, POSIX support can be added externally via cygwin, WSL or MinGW. - Source: dev.to / 9 months ago

• Bash vs. Zsh: Key differences and when to use each

  Download Cygwin from the official site by first downloading the .exe file. Click on the downloaded .exe file to get the full package: During installation, type in Zsh as the shell you want to get, and click Next:. - Source: dev.to / 9 months ago

• Groovy 🎷 Cheat Sheet - 01 Say "Hello" from Groovy

  Alternatively, you can use sdkman. A great tool to install your Software Development Kit. The downside is that it only works on *nix systems. So for Widnows users, you will have to use WSL or Cygwin as the official page suggests. It is really simple to use sdkman. After a successful installation, just type those commands into your *nix shell:. - Source: dev.to / almost 2 years ago

• How do you even get started programming in c++ on Windows?

  You could try Cygwin. I never leave home without it. Source: over 2 years ago

• What exactly IS gitbash?

  It's launching MSYS2, which is in turn based on cygwin, which is a collection of common Linux utilities built for windows and an incomplete POSIX abstraction layer. Source: almost 3 years ago

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MinGW mentions (1)

• Is Mingw dead?

  Is osdn's mingw it a new project ? It's surprising how it provides gcc 4.8.2 and gcc 9.2.0. I guess the 4.8.2 is the last one provided by mingw.org, and 9.2.0 is the first of osdn's project? Is it maintained by the same developers? Source: almost 5 years ago