I support both.  While cygwin has a large community of developers and users, 
when I build/link UWIN with my project, it outperforms the cygwin by several 
orders of magnitude.  I also find the dos terminal compatibility better and 
external dependencies more manageable.  I am also able to build a DLL for 
linking with Visual Studio via UWIN, and I can't do that, practically, with 
cygwin.  There is a hack, but it's quite a hack and very fragile.

That's my experience anyway … ; ) …


On 2013-04-25, at 11:39 AM, Simon Toedt <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 4:24 PM, Bear Limvere
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 25-Apr-13 5:34, Sebastian Feld wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 10:22 PM, Bear Limvere
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I just got a new 64-bit computer and installed Windows7 for business
>>>> reasons. I have been a loyal UWIN user for years, and depend on it for
>>>> many
>>>> development tasks; especially on perl.
>>>> 
>>>> The base package I installed was: uwin-base.2012-08-06.win32.i386-64.exe,
>>>> along with uwin-dev.2012-08-06.win32.i386-64.exe
>>>> 
>>>> When I tried to install either uwin-groff.2008-11-15.win32.i386 or
>>>> uwin-perl-58.2005-11-04.win32.i386, I get an open command prompt with the
>>>> message "cannot find UWIN registry keys"
>>>> 
>>>> Otherwise UWIN seems to be working fine. What can I do to get perl and
>>>> the
>>>> roff packages installed???
>>> 
>>> Has anyone found a solution for this problem?
>> 
>> Please help! I would hate to be forced into abandoning UWIN
> 
> Is there still anyone left who didn't abandon UWIN? The UWIN lists are
> pretty much like a desert when I compare it to the hundreds of posting
> I get from the Cygwin lists
> 
> Simon
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