Autarkic fortune/strfile usage possible?
Christopher Faylor
cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com
Wed May 5 13:59:00 GMT 2004
On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 02:25:20PM +0200, svartsjel@gmx.net wrote:
>I wonder if "outsourcing" of both fortune and strfile executables is
>possible, so these programs might be run independently on a Win32
>system lacking the regular Cygwin environment. Is it feasible somehow
>to supply just the indispensable Cygwin library (or libraries) to
>Windows, so fortune and strfile (needed for generating fortune's dat
>files) can be run via cmd.exe? Fortune is a unique, lovely little
>program, I'd like to use on other machines as well - without Cygwin.
>Any opinions?
I have one: Find another mailing list if you want to discuss ways of
not using cygwin. This is a mailing list devoted to actually *using*
cygwin.
Maybe the MinGW project is what you want; http://www.mingw.org/
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