Why does GCC-Windows depend on cygwin?

Question

I\'m not a C++ developer, but I\'ve always been interested in compilers, and I\'m interested in tinkering with some of the GCC stuff (particularly LLVM).

On Windows,

Answer 1

Much of that software that is compiled for different platforms is compiled... in MinGW. The only difference with gcc is that it is a compiler itself, which means it needs all the headers that normally get compiled in with the program, and normally which one does not need to run the resulting program.