On 6/5/2014 18:12, Chris J. Breisch wrote:
You could port cygport to OS X. That shouldn't be too hard.
Look over that list I posted again. The only thing such an effort would
do is let you hide the BSD userland tools behind GNU ones by putting the
latter first in the PATH. Every other item
I have an iMac 27 64-bit words running OS X Mavericks.
Can I install Cygwin on my iMac?
I know it's not necessary, but I thought it might be helpful
for working on system porting/compatibility problems.
Dick McCullough
Context Knowledge Systems
What is your view?
In message col129-w5d99d52355f33d9159fa1cb...@phx.gblyou write:
I have an iMac 27 64-bit words running OS X Mavericks.
Can I install Cygwin on my iMac?
I know it's not necessary, but I thought it might be helpful
for working on system porting/compatibility problems.
Dick McCullough
Only in the
On 6/5/2014 07:48, Richard H. McCullough wrote:
Can I install Cygwin on my iMac?
cygwin1.dll uses the Win32 API heavily. That means it only runs under
Windows or a near-enough clone like WINE.
A few of the key tools for Cygwin are also Win32-native, such as
setup.exe and cygcheck.exe.
Why do you need cygwin under MasOS X?
MacOS X is POSIX-compatible system that can run all the cygwin
software natively, without API emulation.
On 5 June 2014 18:11, Warren Young war...@etr-usa.com wrote:
On 6/5/2014 07:48, Richard H. McCullough wrote:
Can I install Cygwin on my iMac?
Greetings, Richard H. McCullough!
I have an iMac 27 64-bit words running OS X Mavericks.
Can I install Cygwin on my iMac?
I know it's not necessary, but I thought it might be helpful
for working on system porting/compatibility problems.
Not at all.
If you truly NEED Cygwin, i.e. for tests,
On 6/5/2014 08:16, Yuriy Chernyshov wrote:
Why do you need cygwin under MasOS X?
He answered that in the original post: to test compatibility. OS X and
Cygwin differ in a great many ways.
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Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html
FAQ:
On 6/5/2014 08:35, Andrey Repin wrote:
make sure the tools you are using are
available for Cygwin in the same (or compatible enough) form.
OS X is closest to the BSDs in terms of userland and kernel APIs,
whereas Cygwin mostly emulates Linux, except where Win32 leaks through.
There are
Richard H. McCullough wrote:
I have an iMac 27 64-bit words running OS X Mavericks.
Can I install Cygwin on my iMac?
I know it's not necessary, but I thought it might be helpful
for working on system porting/compatibility problems.
Try macports.org if you need programs compatible with
Greetings, Warren Young!
make sure the tools you are using are
available for Cygwin in the same (or compatible enough) form.
OS X is closest to the BSDs in terms of userland and kernel APIs,
whereas Cygwin mostly emulates Linux, except where Win32 leaks through.
There are plenty of
Andrey Repin wrote:
Greetings, Warren Young!
make sure the tools you are using are
available for Cygwin in the same (or compatible enough) form.
OS X is closest to the BSDs in terms of userland and kernel APIs,
whereas Cygwin mostly emulates Linux, except where Win32 leaks through.
There
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