The developers of Cygwin are strict about upward compatibility, but they don't try to provide backward compatibility between major releases, like between 1.5 and 1.7. This means you can build a program on 1.7 that runs on 1.5 only as long as you avoid calling functions that were added to the Cygwin DLL in 1.7.
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