Re: complete newbie Q

2005-11-29 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 29 18:18, Dave Korn wrote: > Christopher Faylor wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 04:52:05PM -, Dave Korn wrote: > >> Dave Korn wrote: > >>> porting effort. (MinGW provides _some_ of the POSIX syscalls, but it's > >>> a massively less-complete implementation than Cygwin. MSYS provides

RE: complete newbie Q

2005-11-29 Thread Dave Korn
Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 04:52:05PM -, Dave Korn wrote: >> Dave Korn wrote: >>> porting effort. (MinGW provides _some_ of the POSIX syscalls, but it's >>> a massively less-complete implementation than Cygwin. MSYS provides >>> more, >> >> ... but it's not included

Re: complete newbie Q

2005-11-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 04:52:05PM -, Dave Korn wrote: >Dave Korn wrote: >>porting effort. (MinGW provides _some_ of the POSIX syscalls, but it's >>a massively less-complete implementation than Cygwin. MSYS provides >>more, > >... but it's not included in the cygwin mingw distribution.) MSY

RE: complete newbie Q

2005-11-29 Thread Dave Korn
Dave Korn wrote: > porting effort. (MinGW provides _some_ of the POSIX syscalls, but it's a > massively less-complete implementation than Cygwin. MSYS provides more, ... but it's not included in the cygwin mingw distribution.) cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.

RE: complete newbie Q

2005-11-29 Thread Dave Korn
-Tim Prince wrote: > Weiqi Gao wrote: >> On 11/29/05, rosty wrote: >> >>> For example, can a take a unix source, >>> compile and run it under cygwin, then go to another win32 machine that >>> has not cygwin installed, and run it there? >> >> >> No. >> > Unless you can accept -mno-cygwin as a

Re: complete newbie Q

2005-11-29 Thread Tim Prince
Weiqi Gao wrote: > On 11/29/05, rosty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Is it possible to compile under a cygwin a native windows application that >>will run without cygwin installed? > > > Yes. > > >> For example, can a take a unix source, >>compile and run it under cygwin, then go to another wi

Re: complete newbie Q

2005-11-29 Thread Weiqi Gao
On 11/29/05, rosty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is it possible to compile under a cygwin a native windows application that > will run without cygwin installed? Yes. > For example, can a take a unix source, > compile and run it under cygwin, then go to another win32 machine that has > not cygwi

complete newbie Q

2005-11-29 Thread rosty
Is it possible to compile under a cygwin a native windows application that will run without cygwin installed? For example, can a take a unix source, compile and run it under cygwin, then go to another win32 machine that has not cygwin installed, and run it there? -- Unsubscribe info: http: