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by baskerville.CS.Arizona.EDU (8.11.1/8.11.1) id gABKm5A17505
for icon-group-addresses; Mon, 11 Nov 2002 13:48:05 -0700 (MST)
Message-Id: <200211112048.gABKm5A17505@baskerville.CS.Arizona.EDU>
From: Art Eschenlauer <art.eschenlauer@sufsys.com>
To: "'Richard H. McCullough'" <rhm@cdepot.net>,
Gregg Townsend
<gmt@cs.arizona.edu>, icon-group@cs.arizona.edu
Subject: Cygwin (RE: UNIX tools on Windows)
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 13:06:26 -0600
Errors-To: icon-group-errors@cs.arizona.edu
Status: RO
Cygwin is also free (as in available without charge). In contrast to the
mingw32 approach (which is analogous to statically linking on Unix), Cygwin
compiles binaries that are dependent upon its own DLL. It comes with a
setup program that provides all sorts of packages, including even an X
server and several open source database management systems.
Check it out - it's windows programming the way that it should be (i.e.,
sane); you start it up and you are in bash! On good days it's available from
http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/
-----Original Message-----
From: Richard H. McCullough [mailto:rhm@cdepot.net]
Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 7:02 PM
To: Gregg Townsend; icon-group@CS.Arizona.EDU
Subject: Re: UNIX tools on Windows
There are now many packages of UNIX tools which run on Windows.
I have personally used the following packages:
Microsoft Services for Windows 3.0
only $99
only runs on latest OS -- XP, NT, 2000
MKS Toolkit 8.0
now $500 ballpark, I think
will run on earlier OS -- 95, 98, ME
mingw32
free -- open source
The free one doesn't include as many commands,
I think about 100 "standard" UNIX commands.
The other two include about 300 "standard" UNIX=20
commands, and conform to POSIX standards.
All three packages include make, each with some=20
minor variations in Makefile rules. If you keep your
Makefiles simple, the differences won't bite you.
Dick McCullough=20
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