Hey I can't say enough about Cygwin. Helped me out immensly. Gets you kinda
used to how Unix would be layed out while in shell. Great learning tool for
when you ever make that big leap from Windows to Linux ;-). I'm sure there
are helpfiles also. TTFN.
Dantin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Balo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 6:42 AM
Subject: Re: GDB in Virtual Unix environment
> Hi, Brian / List,
> Although I cant agree more that moving to a *nix O/S for both developing
and
> running a mud is without doubt the "best" solution Cygwin is often the
only
> practical route some ppl have. I would like to add that Cygwin is
available
> free (http://www.cygwin.com) and gcc / gdb are included with the
> distribution
>
> Personally, (if any of you read my earlier post) I think that the ROM
> community
> should encourage ppl to use Cygwin if they are not prepared or are do not
> have
> access to a real Unix O/S.
>
> I have to say I'm suppressed by the lack of response from my previous
> posting ..
> I know most of the folks on the list will be running Unix as I do myself
..
> Cygwin is if nothing else a great stepping stone .. I can say it helped me
> greatly.
> So whilst not advocating it as the best solution we should help those who
> have
> no realistic alternative by providing a faq at the least, or ideally
> creating a patch
> / update to the ROM source containing a Makefile and some of the
> modifications
> recently discussed again on this list..
> I would be glad to help out but I no longer have a version of Cygwin
> installed
>
> Id love to hear anyone's thoughts / feedback on this subject.
>
> Balo.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brian Reus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 4:48 AM
> Subject: Re: GDB in Virtual Unix environment
>
>
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Stainless" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: "ROM Mailing List" <[email protected]>; "Tom Whiting" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2001 2:11 PM
> > Subject: Re: GDB in Virtual Unix environment
> >
> >
> > <Snip flame war>
> >
> > Let me say that Linux is 100 percent free.. you can down load it from
> > www.redhat.com and if you have a good isp, you can connect it to the
> > internet too.. now you just have to remove the security faults. A Linux
> box
> > without telnetd/rshd/sshd/rlogind may be secure and a mud will still run
> on
> > it. you can get a mud to run for free, instead of paying for WinNT and
I
> > know that Cygwin isn't free either.. (I downloaded it 2 or 3 years ago).
> > gcc/gdb comes with linux
> >
> >
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