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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: "'d'oh!'" <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 13:24:02 +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: Dave Korn
>Sent: 15 July 2005 13:20
> ----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
>
[ ... hit send by accident, DOH! ... ]
... we've got cygwin running on cygwin, we'll be half way there. Then we
just need to get windows running on windows and mix the two together!
cheers,
DaveK
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