Cygwin 3.6 on Windows 8?

[Dan Shelton]

On Mon, 10 Mar 2025 at 11:36, Martin Wege via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Mar 7, 2025 at 3:42 PM Dan Shelton via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello!
> >
> > Did anyone test whether Cygwin 3.6 will still work on Windows 8? I
> > know, Win8 is unsupported, but apparently it is still needed
>
> https://cygwin.com/ front page says "The Cygwin DLL currently works
> with all recent, commercially released x86_64 versions of Windows,
> starting with Windows 8.1. For more information see the FAQ."
>
> Whether Windows 8.1 is really still supported for Cygwin 3.6, that
> only Corinna can answer.

Thx. Installation of Cygwin 3.6.0 on Windows 8.1/x86-64 worked fine
without a problem.
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Dan
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