compile ncurses "hello world" to run independent of cygwin?

[cyg Simple]

On 11/1/2015 11:09 PM, Darik Horn wrote:
> 
> Unless there is a specific reason to cross through Cygwin, it could be
> easier to use the native MinGW environment directly:
> 
> * http://www.mingw.org/wiki/Getting_Started
> 

Poppycock! There is no reason that the user couldn't use Cygwin as the
one and only system to build native binaries.

> And link against the ncurses redistributable:
> 
> * http://invisible-mirror.net/ncurses/ncurses.html
> 

Building your own native library with a known set of compilers and
options may be better than depending on someone's build where you don't
know for certain the system, options and compiler used.

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