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).

That may have involved "not being sufficiently observant," because the company 
quite clearly documents Cygwin as a dependancy.
http://www.mysql.com/downloads/cygwin.html
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