Cygwin/MinGW compilation
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-wxWidgets 2 supports Cygwin (formerly GnuWin32) betas and
+wxWidgets supports Cygwin (formerly GnuWin32) betas and
releases, and MinGW. Cygwin can be downloaded from:
http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/
installed in case of MinGW). You will need new enough MinGW version, preferably
MinGW 2.0 (ships with gcc3) or at least 1.0 (gcc-2.95.3). GCC versions older
than 2.95.3 don't work; you can use wxWidgets 2.4 with them.
+If using Cygwin, you must pass --disable-sockets to configure due to a header
+conflict in Cygwin.
NOTE: some notes specific to old Cygwin (< 1.1.x) are at the end of this
section (see OLD VERSIONS)