Re: [mail] Re: Windows Build System

Jeff Davis wrote:
>>What about it? Someone claimed in this thread that MySQL's Windows port
>>requires Cygwin. Is that true or not?
>
> It's been a while, but I know I've installed MySQL on windows without any
> separate step of installing Cygwin (I can't say 100% for sure that it didn't
> install some part of Cygwin transparently to me).

From the MySQL site's page about MySQL vs PostgreSQL:
http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/MySQL-PostgreSQL_features.html

"MySQL Server works better on Windows than PostgreSQL does. MySQL Server
runs as a native Windows application (a service on NT/2000/XP), while
PostgreSQL is run under the Cygwin emulation."

That seems pretty straightforward.

Regards and best wishes,

Justin Clift

> Regards,
> Jeff Davis

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