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I personnally use mingw if I need to compile something to C or C++ for windows , and for any serious work , Vagrant and Linux. Cygwin an likes are just horrible and I just don't see the point of these today.

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When I get a source tarball and I want to run it on Windows, Cygwin gives me the highest probability of a successful compile; higher than Solaris, for sure, and that's a genuine Unix. YMMV.

Nit pick, but, I think it's safe to say you don't compile anything to "C" or "C++", when you're using mingw, you're compiling a "C" or "C++" program to assembly.

Nit pick, but plenty of things compile to C / C++.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6498850/programming-lang...

Sure, I agree. But, I believe the parent comment believed she was compiling to C/C++ from C/C++

Hmmm, the other grammar and spelling errors made me think that "to" was also just a mistake.

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