From: Tony Kelman <tony@kelman.net>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Last Version of Cygwin for XP
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2016 17:41:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20160213T183830-149@post.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACoZoo298DuWof_H_UbXVHnszEPnNG8sU7MKiufib+1NwjRNJQ@mail.gmail.com>
Erik Soderquist <ErikSoderquist <at> gmail.com> writes:
> currently I'm studying programming myself now with a direct goal of
> being able to write a Linux compatible replacement so I can dump my
> own amber-coated XP
Have you tried running the Windows binaries under Wine? It's worth a
shot. Wine has some hefty dependencies but I wonder what the minimum
footprint of a wine-capable VM or container would be.
-Tony
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-13 17:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-10 1:37 Jonathan Brenster
2016-02-10 2:17 ` Yaakov Selkowitz
2016-02-10 17:14 ` LMH
2016-02-10 17:24 ` Yaakov Selkowitz
2016-02-11 18:09 ` cyg Simple
2016-02-12 19:20 ` Warren Young
2016-02-12 21:58 ` Erik Soderquist
2016-02-12 22:42 ` Warren Young
2016-02-13 0:37 ` Erik Soderquist
2016-02-13 17:41 ` Tony Kelman [this message]
2016-02-14 0:41 ` Erik Soderquist
2016-02-15 14:53 ` Eric Blake
2016-02-13 17:20 ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-02-10 2:20 ` Andrey Repin
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