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Cygwin requires recompiling.
by lmz 2y ago
Cygwin requires recompiling.
- _nalply 2y agoCare to explain a little bit more? In which cases recompiling is required? Do you agree that Cygwin is a moderately successful reimplementation of a part of Linux? If you agree then I wonder how recompiling affects that Cygwin is a (partial) reimplementation?
- drewdevault 2y agoCygwin is a POSIX implementation, not a Linux implementation. Linux is mostly POSIX compatible and so Cygwin is source-compatible, but not binary-compatible, with many programs that work on Linux.
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- lmz 2y agoWhat the other guy said. Cygwin is a set of libraries to compile and run GNU programs on Windows. It does not run existing Linux binaries and definitely does not translate Linux syscalls into Windows (that would be WSL v1). If recompiling is OK, I suggest starting with one of the BSDs, at least they have a fork() that works.
- nurettin 2y agoWhat I meant is that it can be used as a checklist of what to do, since so many linux programs can be built against it and it has been around for more than two decades.