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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