MinGW or Cygwin for external predicates

Help!
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Hello,

I am installing a C++ eclipse toolchain to try out creating an external predicate example on windows.

On windows there are two toolchain / runtime choices MinGW or Cygwin – would either one work to create a DLL that can be loaded by swi prolog on windows? Or is the Cygwin required due to its posix compliance?

thanks,

Dan

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The distributed binaries are compiled using MinGw. Overall, this is complicated. It depends on the abi compliance and runtime lib compliance of the involved compilers.