On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Marc Tompkins <marc.tompk...@gmail.com>wrote:
> If you want to run a non-Windows executable on Windows, you need to use an > alternate shell - someone mentioned Cygwin - although I'm not certain that > even that will do it for you. What makes an executable OS-specific is not > the language it's written in, but the libraries that it's compiled/linked > with. If you have access to the source code, the simplest thing would > probably be to recompile it on your own machine... the GCC (Gnu Compiler > Collection) is free. > Nope, just checked the Cygwin page: What Isn't Cygwin? Cygwin is *not* a way to run native linux apps on Windows. You have to rebuild your application *from source* if you want it to run on Windows. Cygwin is *not* a way to magically make native Windows apps aware of UNIX ® functionality, like signals, ptys, etc. Again, you need to build your apps *from source* if you want to take advantage of Cygwin functionality. -- www.fsrtechnologies.com
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