I use cygwin for data analysis purposes for my employer. Up to this point, I have produced reports as my unit of output. However, my employer now wants to export my home-grown toolset to end users, which makes me an application vendor, not a data analyst.
Aside from my anxiety over this sudden outbreak of scope creep (truly a disease), I am struggling to find out how to distribute a user-friendly version of my toolset to users who think that perl scripts grow inside shell scripts in the ocean. I have heard that you can compile perl code into c code, so I was wondering if anything similar exists for shell scripts or even cygwin itself. Ideally I would like to distribute an executable that uses a shell script as its entry point, but does not require a cygwin installation on the host. If there is some way to package the few standard programs I need (bash, perl, unzip, etc.) with my custom scripts, that would be acceptable as well. It cannot by too hackish, but I could do a reasonable amount of customization, as I am actually a programmer in disguise. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, John Westbrook -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
