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'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?
There's a Fedora->Cygwin cross environment documented in:
https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2020-July/245695.html
or your local copy from July 27-28.
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