Pierre Habraken writes:
> The aim of what I want to do is to provide our students (undergraduate > level) with a posix programming environment (including Ada) that they > can easily install and use at home on their own machine. If you just need a programming environment, you could also use a mingw based solution. For example MSYS or (my preference) http://unxutils.sourceforge.net. If you want a unix-like runtime environment for portability than Cygwin is indeed the only free choice. -- -- Jerry van Dijk | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Leiden, Holland | web: users.ncrvnet.nl/gmvdijk -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/