From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 108332 invoked by alias); 30 Aug 2016 20:50:19 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 108311 invoked by uid 89); 30 Aug 2016 20:50:18 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=2.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,FREEMAIL_FROM,KAM_THEBAT,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=H*F:D*yandex.ru, yandexru, UD:yandex.ru, yandex.ru X-HELO: forward1o.cmail.yandex.net Received: from forward1o.cmail.yandex.net (HELO forward1o.cmail.yandex.net) (37.9.109.84) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 30 Aug 2016 20:50:08 +0000 Received: from smtp3h.mail.yandex.net (smtp3h.mail.yandex.net [IPv6:2a02:6b8:0:f05::117]) by forward1o.cmail.yandex.net (Yandex) with ESMTP id EEDE6211A5; Tue, 30 Aug 2016 23:50:05 +0300 (MSK) Received: from smtp3h.mail.yandex.net (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp3h.mail.yandex.net (Yandex) with ESMTP id 50A2B440014; Tue, 30 Aug 2016 23:50:04 +0300 (MSK) Received: by smtp3h.mail.yandex.net (nwsmtp/Yandex) with ESMTPSA id WJpclgIWgH-o4r4A7NC; Tue, 30 Aug 2016 23:50:04 +0300 (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client certificate not present) Authentication-Results: smtp3h.mail.yandex.net; dkim=pass header.i=@yandex.ru X-Yandex-Suid-Status: 1 0,1 0 Received: from [192.168.1.10] (HELO daemon2.darkdragon.lan) by daemon2 (Office Mail Server 0.8.12 build 08053101) with SMTP; Tue, 30 Aug 2016 20:45:11 -0000 Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 21:27:00 -0000 From: Andrey Repin Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <211340165.20160830234511@yandex.ru> To: lloyd.wood@yahoo.co.uk, cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Windows Subsystem For Linux In-Reply-To: <1454779106.2980080.1472543049625@mail.yahoo.com> References: <1454779106.2980080.1472543049625.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <1454779106.2980080.1472543049625@mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-08/txt/msg00615.txt.bz2 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... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple