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From: John Scott <jscott@posteo.net>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Developing for Cygwin from POSIX host
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2020 21:58:45 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9076494.QnH3kWR8HF@t450> (raw)

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Hi,

I'm writing an application in C that's increasingly dependent on the POSIX 
APIs and would like to use the Cygwin DLL to help port it to Windows. I 
currently use MinGW-w64 but foresee that will stop being sufficient eventually.

I want to do this using only free software without a Windows installation. A 
GNU/Linux to Cygwin cross compiler doesn't seem available, at least on Debian. 
Cygwin also fails to run under Wine.

I'm not interested in the Cygwin userspace, I just need the POSIX layer. Aside 
from booting up a ReactOS VM, is there a more clean way to do what I seek to 
do?

Thanks,
John

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             reply	other threads:[~2020-08-07  1:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-07  1:58 John Scott [this message]
2020-08-07  4:56 ` Brian Inglis
2020-08-07  8:24   ` Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty
2020-08-17 11:01 Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty

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