From: Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty <hamishmb@live.co.uk>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Developing for Cygwin from POSIX host
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2020 09:24:56 +0100 [thread overview]
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In-Reply-To: <7d145537-d982-617c-7f2d-bb047a9d782b@SystematicSw.ab.ca>
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On 07/08/2020 05:56, Brian Inglis wrote:
> On 2020-08-06 19:58, John Scott via Cygwin wrote:
>> 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.
> Should work as there are fixes in each for the other.
>
I tried this a while back too, before I gave up and used a Windows VM.
Cygwin currently doesn't seem to work in wine, sadly. It does almost
work though, by the looks of it. I'm going to see if I can report some
bugs on WineHQ if any of the Wine developers are interested.
Hamish
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-07 1:58 John Scott
2020-08-07 4:56 ` Brian Inglis
2020-08-07 8:24 ` Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty [this message]
2020-08-17 11:01 Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty
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