cygwin-talk Digest 15 Jul 2005 06:33:26 -0000 Issue 147

[Gerrit P. Haase]

Haroon Shafiq wrote:
>>>Brian Dessent wrote:
>>>
>>>>Second of all, Cygwin is a windows DLL.  There is absolutely no way to
>>>>run it under Linux or any other system that's not Windows, unless you 
>>>>are talking about WINE or something.
>>>
>>>Hmmm...  Has any tried it?  :-)
>>Nope.  Absolutely no one has tried it in any way whatsoever and no one
>>ever will.  Any reports you hear of people trying it will be no more 
>>than taunting lies.
> An absolutely stupid idea. cygwin is supposed to be a *nix emulator, u
> want to run an emulator made to emulate an operating system on another
> operating system on the operating system whom it emulates through yet
> another emulator? where is this world going to?

I would do it just for fun and I believe that I read about someone who
already tried to run Cygwin based programs on top of Wine.  If this
succeeds it doesn't make a difference whether Linux is running inside
VMWare or coLinux or on real hardware.

I suggest to run Cygwin inside Wine running on Linux based on coLinux
which needs at least W2K as host, so unfortunately Win98 as base host
doesn't work.

;)