[Insight-developers] Will ITK4 support cygwin?

[Bill Hoffman]

On 1/4/2011 4:25 PM, Bill Lorensen wrote:
> Folks,
>
> We do not have any dashboards for cygwin. Is this a supported platform?
>
> Personally, I use mingw for a gcc compiler on windows. In my opinion,
> cygwin is bloated and slow. There are cmake distribution issues with
> cygwin (that's a long story with a long email trail on the cmake
> mailing list). But, in the past, we had a cygwin nightly.
>
> In Code/* there are 24 instances of #if's that reference cygwin (as a
> comparison, there are 19 #if's that reference my old pal Borland).
>

I would say that we should remove specific support for cygwin.  Once 
cygwin reaches its goal of being a posix system, then itk should work 
with no if cygwin stuff at all.   The next cygwin release of CMake will 
treat the platform like posix.

-Bill