GCC on Cygwin coexisting with MinGW

Question

It is possible to have two versions of GCC to coexist: the native windows MinGW version and the cygwin linux version? Things get problematic when on Cygwin the system tries to c

Answer 1

Take both out of global path. Then create a new *.cmd file with the following (takes Cygwin as example):

@echo off
rem file: start cmd with cygwin's path
cmd.exe  /k path=C:\cygwin\bin;%path%

You can type path in the command window to check.

Now you can work with cygwin. The environment only be valid within the cmd.exe.