Not quite correct. Cygwin is a Linux emulation environment for Windows. It allows you to port Linux source code (and thereby most UNIX source) code to Windows. The included libraries provide routines that emulate most Linux system calls (fork, exec, signal, pipe, etc, etc, etc). It does not allow you to run Linux executables under Windows.
Tony Richardson -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Gray Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2008 11:54 PM To: sdcc-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Sdcc-user] documentation & open source generally CYGWIN, I believe, allows some native Linux programs to run on a Windows machine, as WINE allows some Windows programs to run on a Linux machine. By native I mean a simple copy of the binary executable file transferred from one machine to the other. There may well be other shells/emulators that permit this kind of functionality, but these are the ones I know of. On Thursday 04 September 2008 05:41:25 Richard Erlacher wrote: > Sadly, though you may know, you haven't shed light on WHY this SDCC stuff > isn't promoted as a DOS program, rather than a Windows program. > > If it requires an add-on to Windows, WHY? What does that do? > > Do you seen what I mean? Why is there a CYGWIN? ... and what's that other > one MINGW ... or some such? Why do those exist? > > regards, > > Richard Erlacher <snip> -- Richard. PGP Key-id: 0x5AB3D350 Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. -- Albert Einstein ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Sdcc-user mailing list Sdcc-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sdcc-user ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Sdcc-user mailing list Sdcc-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sdcc-user
