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Every time I read about WSL I can't help but wonder why cygwin is never mentioned. Cygwin provided all this over a decade ago.
by ams6110 9y ago
Every time I read about WSL I can't help but wonder why cygwin is never mentioned. Cygwin provided all this over a decade ago.
- chokolad 9y agoCygwin was able to run unmodified elf binaries on windows? And it was doing it a decade ago? Wow, that's really impressive.
- ams6110 9y agoNo, but it ran all the Linux applications and shells and utilities. I was running Xemacs in X11 on Windows XP using cygwin years ago. But to your point they were built for cygwin, not linux.
- pharrington 9y agofrom https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/commandline/wsl/about https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/commandline/wsl/about: "Bash on Windows provides developers with a familiar Bash shell and Linux environment in which you can run most Linux command-line tools, directly on Windows, UNMODIFIED, without needing an entire Linux virtual machine!" from https://cygwin.com/ https://cygwin.com/: "Cygwin is not: a way to run native Linux apps on Windows. You must rebuild your application from source if you want it to run on Windows."