<div dir="ltr">I wouldn't personally use a Cygwin or MinGW target these days, but I can see why a Cygwin target would be useful in a Swift context. I suspect most Swift code is either going to be written for iOS/Mac, or Linux server code, including third-party libraries. Lots of Swift code will probably have some POSIX calls that wouldn't otherwise be available on Windows.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 2:44 AM, hitstergtd+swiftevo--- via swift-evolution <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" target="_blank">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Why is there a need to support Cygwin/MingW and their variants as a<br>
build target for Windows? MSVC is practically free these days.<br>
<br>
Doesn't supporting multiple different ABI targets on Windows just<br>
complicate matters unnecessarily? Isn't MSVC enough as a build target?<br>
<br>
I am not dejecting; rather, just wondering the actual need.<br>
<br>
On 3 May 2016 at 06:00, Sangjin Han via swift-evolution<br>
<div><div class="h5"><<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hello swift-evolution,<br>
><br>
> This is continued from PR #2351(<a href="https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/2351" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/2351</a>).<br>
><br>
> Here is the brief history. (To avoid confusion, I used MSVC refer to<br>
> *-*-windows-msvc and Cygwin refer to *-*-windows-cygnus in LLVM.)<br>
><br>
> I needed the #if method to distinct MSVC from Cygwin, for mapping the Int to<br>
> CLongLong not CLong on MSVC.<br>
> In PR #2351, I simply added 'os(Cygwin)' and restrict 'os(Windows)' to<br>
> *-*-windows-msvc from *-*-windows-*, this solved my problem.<br>
><br>
> Jake(@jakepetroules) pointed out that Cygwin is not an OS and it will never<br>
> fixed to avoid breaking user applications.<br>
> There is more participants and opinions, briefly,<br>
> - introduce another new one such as 'env(cygnus)' or 'triple(Cygwin)'<br>
> - the usability of the common condition 'os(Windows)' for *-*-windows-*<br>
> - fundamentally, what do we gain from asking which os() is in use?<br>
> - 'env()' is too vague<br>
> - what the right questions?<br>
><br>
> Forgive me the poor quotations of valuable opinions.<br>
><br>
><br>
> I hope we find out the solution or method everybody satisfied.<br>
><br>
><br>
> -Han Sangjin<br>
><br>
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