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Re: cygwin-talk Digest 15 Jul 2005 06:33:26 -0000 Issue 147
- From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gerrit at familiehaase dot de>
- To: The Cygwin-Talk Malingering List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 14:14:08 +0200
- Subject: Re: cygwin-talk Digest 15 Jul 2005 06:33:26 -0000 Issue 147
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Haroon Shafiq wrote:
Brian Dessent wrote:
Second of all, Cygwin is a windows DLL. There is absolutely no way to
run it under Linux or any other system that's not Windows, unless you
are talking about WINE or something.
Hmmm... Has any tried it? :-)
Nope. Absolutely no one has tried it in any way whatsoever and no one
ever will. Any reports you hear of people trying it will be no more
than taunting lies.
An absolutely stupid idea. cygwin is supposed to be a *nix emulator, u
want to run an emulator made to emulate an operating system on another
operating system on the operating system whom it emulates through yet
another emulator? where is this world going to?
I would do it just for fun and I believe that I read about someone who
already tried to run Cygwin based programs on top of Wine. If this
succeeds it doesn't make a difference whether Linux is running inside
VMWare or coLinux or on real hardware.
I suggest to run Cygwin inside Wine running on Linux based on coLinux
which needs at least W2K as host, so unfortunately Win98 as base host
doesn't work.
;)