[mythtv] Windows port

[Petr Stehlik]

Jerry Rubinow wrote:
>>     Please use at least a free-as-in-beer toolchain

> My initial experiment didn't involve cygwin, but I'm thinking 
> that might make a bunch of things easier, rather than provide my own 
> translation layer for the Unix/Linux-only functions myth uses.

That is correct. I used cygwin for porting a Unix/SDL project to Windows 
and it required almost no changes to source code. If I were trying to 
port Mythfrontend to Windows I would definitely start with Cygwin. Why 
reinvent the wheel? Rely on the cygwin and reuse their work.

Petr