Hal Murray via devel writes: > I've been assuming that it is reasonably straightforward to setup a POSIX > friendly environment in Windows. Is that wrong?
Whatever you look at will be just slightly different then what you expect. > Maybe I should have asked a preliminary question. How hard is it to setup a > POSIX/c environment? Depends on how far you want to take it and what exactly do you think of as a "POSIX environment". Or to say it more pointedly, how different from Linux are you comfortable with? > Is Cygwin the way to go? A reasonable way? Are there good alternatives? It gets you a build and execution environment, but it's a userspace layer on top of the NT kernel, so once you get to a low enough level this will start to show through. >> Not close. There should still be adapters in the history. It's not that >> simple due to wrong flags. > > What's an adapter? A wrapper, shim or compatibility library for something that expects one perticular ABI with the purpose of using something else supporting another ABI under the hood. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ Waldorf MIDI Implementation & additional documentation: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#WaldorfDocs _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@ntpsec.org https://lists.ntpsec.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
