From: Jose Isaias Cabrera <jicman@outlook.com>
To: "cygwin@cygwin.com" <cygwin@cygwin.com>,
"moss@cs.umass.edu" <moss@cs.umass.edu>
Subject: Re: How to install gcc and g++ 6 on cygwin which are not on the setup.exe
Date: Fri, 17 May 2019 15:21:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DB7PR01MB5386415AFAB30F41C11F592DDE0B0@DB7PR01MB5386.eurprd01.prod.exchangelabs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <94231473-d378-952e-a450-d0323e3906dd@cs.umass.edu>
Eliot Moss, on Friday, May 17, 2019 09:16 AM, wrote...
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>I've been a Cygwin user for a long time, and I like it, but
>another possibility here for you is WSL (Windows Subsystem
>for Linux). It's a pretty easy install, and because it is
>done by Microsoft and can reliably use internal interfaces,
>there are ways in which it is more Linux-like -- for many
>packages you can just do apt-get install and they work. In
>my experience the performance is comparable to Cygwin, maybe
>a touch faster (but no where near as fast for heavy forking
>as running inside a Virtual Box Ubuntu virtual machine, for
>example). It has its limitations, for sure, but I have found
>it helpful for some things.
Thanks for this, Eliot. Yes, I do have it installed at home, but at work, we're still running Windows 7-42bit systems. ;-) So, you gotta work with what you gotta work. :-)
josé
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Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-05-15 20:58 Jose Isaias Cabrera
2019-05-16 7:36 ` Csaba Raduly
2019-05-16 16:47 ` Jose Isaias Cabrera
2019-05-16 21:47 ` Csaba Ráduly
2019-05-17 3:28 ` Jose Isaias Cabrera
2019-05-17 13:16 ` Eliot Moss
2019-05-17 15:21 ` Jose Isaias Cabrera [this message]
2019-05-18 3:18 ` Jose Isaias Cabrera
2019-05-18 5:14 ` Brian Inglis
2019-05-18 6:50 ` Csaba Raduly
2019-05-18 12:19 ` Jose Isaias Cabrera
2019-05-18 15:54 ` Ken Brown
2019-05-18 20:15 ` Csaba Raduly
2019-05-18 23:15 ` Jose Isaias Cabrera
2019-05-19 1:24 ` Jose Isaias Cabrera
2019-05-19 2:57 ` Jack
2019-05-19 8:37 ` Csaba Raduly
2019-05-20 14:56 ` Jose Isaias Cabrera
2019-05-18 12:16 ` Jose Isaias Cabrera
2019-05-18 12:01 ` Jose Isaias Cabrera
2019-05-18 5:13 ` Doug Henderson
2019-05-18 12:14 ` Jose Isaias Cabrera
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