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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: MinGW port - initial work uploaded
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 09:18:55 -0800
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Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> Ahh, that's perfect. There are even RPM's for mingw around, since that 
> seems to be what some Wine people use for testing.
> 

I've been using MinGW on Linux since the Transmeta days to build Win32 
binaries on Linux.  It's *really* handy, and it's how I produce the 
Win32 version of syslinux.

	-hpa