[fpc-devel] Re: Is it possible to remove dependency on cygwin from freepascal ?

[Tomas Hajny]

On Tue, April 28, 2009 12:13, sakesun roykiatisak wrote:
>>> Is it possible to remove dependency on cygwin from freepascal ?
>
> To make it clear, I actually mean "remove dependency on some cygwin
> utilities"
> Fpc compiler is not based on cygwin, however.
>
> Sorry if this could cause some confusion to some new freepascal user.

As far as I know, the most prominent place causing cygwin dependency on
Win32 is the GDB debugger (and its library form used by FP IDE).
Possibility of own debugger was discussed here repeatedly, but it's a
rather complex area.

Tomas