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    Cygwin, why does my lab recommend to NOT use it?

    There are a number of known problems in current GCC when compiled for windows, relating mostly to exception handling with DLLs in use. (There are also a lot of backwardly-incompatible changes in recent GCC that make it more demanding of strict standards compliance in C++ usage than it used to...
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    Cygwin, why does my lab recommend to NOT use it?

    Hello profroopchan. I think your system administrator must have a misunderstanding. If there are trojans or even just corrupt files on any mirror site, they will fail either the md5 checksum test or the setup.ini digital signature check; setup.exe will refuse to install an invalid or tampered...
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