Can cygwin be loaded and it's utilities be used on Unix

[Dave Korn]

----Original Message----
>From: Dave Korn
>Sent: 15 July 2005 13:20

> ----Original Message----
>> From: Danilo Turina
>> Sent: 15 July 2005 07:37
> 
>> Lasse 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? :-)
>>> 
>> 
>> I would add some virtualization software in the mix (like WMWare) just
>> to not make that simple (e.g. Windows 98 + WMWare + Linux + Wine +
>> Cygwin).
> 
> 
> 
>   Nah.  I reckon we should develop a windows emulation layer on top of
> POSIX.  It could be called 'WinCyg'.  Then we could run cygwin on wincyg
> easily.  It should be easy enough.  As a first step, who feels like adding
> autoconf target support to cygwin?  When  
>
            [ ... hit send by accident, DOH! ... ]

 ... we've got cygwin running on cygwin, we'll be half way there.  Then we
just need to get windows running on windows and mix the two together!

    cheers,
      DaveK
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