[x265] Building on Cygwin

[Steve Borho]

On 11/04, Mario *LigH* Rohkr??mer wrote:
> Am 04.11.2015, 16:09 Uhr, schrieb Steve Borho <steve at borho.org>:
> 
> >I think the simplest answer is that on Windows we only support native
> >GCC (as MinGW with MSYS make and shell) or Visual Studio 2010 and above.
> >
> >We do not test cygwin builds, if it works it is completely accidental.
> 
> Wouldn't cygwin be slightly less efficient than more native Windows builds
> anyway, due to another OS abstraction layer? I believe cygwin is the better
> solution when a certain level of compatibility to Unix like shells (POSIX
> syntax) is required, but x265 should not need that.

I expect a cygwin build to be slower than either a MinGW or MSVC build.

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Steve Borho