From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru>
To: lloyd.wood@yahoo.co.uk, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Windows Subsystem For Linux
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 21:27:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <211340165.20160830234511@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1454779106.2980080.1472543049625@mail.yahoo.com>
Greetings, lloyd.wood@yahoo.co.uk!
> A viewpoint on this whole Windows Ubuntu Frankenstein hybrid vs Cygwin thing:
> In comparison with the difficulties trying to build Geomview under 64-bit Cygwin,
> then discovering the piping issues that prevent it working with modules, using
> the Windows Ubuntu subsystem to install pre-existing Ubuntu packages and dependencies
> turned out to be surprisingly straightforward and user friendly.
> Compare the instructions on:
> http://personal.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/L.Wood/software/SaVi/building-under-Windows/
> and you can see why the complex build-on-Cygwin instructions are now listed last. (I also had
> no problem pulling in gcc and tk-dev and building SaVi from source. Haven't yet tried with
> Geomview!)
> I think Cygwin's Xming will soon be the most popular Cygwin spinoff, filling the same
> free Xserver role that XQuartz does on Mac OS X now that no longer ships an Xserver
> with the OS, and I think we're all going to be very grateful that Xming exists.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xming
Now try to pipe something from a native application to your UFW build, and
then the results from it to something else native.
I'm eagerly awaiting reports of your success.
--
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Tuesday, August 30, 2016 23:43:58
Sorry for my terrible english...
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2016-08-30 13:06 ` lloyd.wood
2016-08-30 17:45 ` Marco Atzeri
2016-08-30 21:27 ` Andrey Repin [this message]
2016-08-31 10:51 ` Erik Soderquist
2016-09-04 7:35 ` Herbert Stocker
2016-08-30 13:40 Schwarz, Konrad
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2016-08-29 12:42 Schwarz, Konrad
2016-08-29 12:54 ` Ray Donnelly
2016-08-29 13:17 ` Tim Prince
2016-08-29 14:22 ` Keith Christian
2016-08-29 17:43 ` Andrey Repin
2016-08-29 18:30 ` Andrew Schulman
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