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

[Vincent Snijders]

Tomas Hajny schreef:
> 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).

The stand-alone debugger gdb distributed with fpc is not cygwin, but mingw32.

Vincent