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RE: Can cygwin be loaded and it's utilities be used on Unix
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: "'The cross-winsup mailing list'" <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 13:20:27 +0100
- Subject: RE: Can cygwin be loaded and it's utilities be used on Unix
- Reply-to: The Cygwin-Talk Malingering List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
----Original Message----
>From: Danilo Turina
>Sent: 15 July 2005 07:37
> Lasse wrote:
>> Brian Dessent wrote:
>>
>>> Second of all, Cygwin is a
>>> windows DLL. There is absolutely no way to run it under Linux or any
>>> other system that's not Windows, unless you are talking about WINE or
>>> something.
>>
>>
>> Hmmm... Has any tried it? :-)
>>
>
> I would add some virtualization software in the mix (like WMWare) just
> to not make that simple (e.g. Windows 98 + WMWare + Linux + Wine +
> Cygwin).
Nah. I reckon we should develop a windows emulation layer on top of
POSIX. It could be called 'WinCyg'. Then we could run cygwin on wincyg
easily. It should be easy enough. As a first step, who feels like adding
autoconf target support to cygwin? When
cheers,
DaveK
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