Using Mingw/cygwin in Windows is for GCC development

Just recorded the next with Eclipse under Linux development, suddenly think of another way: MinGW.

MinGW is a Windows GCC development tool that uses the Windows runtime directly, so you can easily compile with GCC under Windows.

But this method is very limited, that is, there is no way to use Linux under the system functions, unless their own code is not dependent on any system API, but this is obviously not possible. So to emulate Linux under Windows, just MinGW is not enough.

But there is another way, that is Cygwin, it is a simple Linux environment under the window simulation, it is simple, but has been ported almost used command and development library, the only drawback is that the installation is too large, very time-consuming. And it also has limitations: in the process of software development, often use third-party libraries, such as you want to use the database, whether it is sybase,mysql, or other, such as tuxedo, etc., these things under Cygwin, you can do nothing.

So these two methods for me are not satisfied, or directly in Linux installed Eclipse, in Windows under the Xming, the most convenient, there is no limitations.