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| From | rbowman <bowman@montana.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.os.windows-10 |
| Subject | Re: Coreutils for Windows... & Powershell |
| Date | 2026-06-12 20:04 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <n9373bFqnmpU3@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
| References | <hALWR.62233$WQ_e.44790@fx14.iad> <110g2m1$1uj56$1@toylet.eternal-september.org> <i1x40korfazo.dlg@v.nguard.lh> <110gic2$rjh$1@moist.bananacorp.nl.uucp> <1srvuinnfbzte$.dlg@v.nguard.lh> |
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On Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:11:38 -0500, VanguardLH wrote: > Hmm, could be wrong. So, install of building NIX progs to run on > Windows that utilize some Cygwin layer, MSYS2 lets you build NIX progs > to run natively on Windows (using Windows' own APIs)? Yes. There is a lot of history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJGPP DJ Delorie ported gcc to Windows. That sort of started two different approaches. Corinna Vinschen and others took the Cygwin path to create an entire POSIX environment on Windows, chiefly to build Linux applications. Mumit Khan, Anders Norlander, and others say gcc as a compiler that could be used to create native applications with the MinGW project. The Windows DLLs were used with clean room implementations of Windows header files. It was handy. Charles Petzhold didn't like MFC/C++ so his early Windows programming books used straight C and the Win32 API. MinGW wasn't really meant to port Linux apps. The Cygwin runtime provided a POSIX environment on Windows. We used MKS Nutcracker, a proprietary toolkit that was similar but didn't get into the GPL complications for commercial use. It included an X server so our GUIs were Motif. Most of the codebase built for Linux or Windows with a few ifdefs and Makefile tweaks. originally it also built for AIX but our clients moved away from IBM RS6000 boxes as Windows/x86 became cheaper and more reliable.
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Coreutils for Windows John Smith <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2026-06-12 06:00 +0100
Re: Coreutils for Windows... & Powershell "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2026-06-12 12:41 +0800
Re: Coreutils for Windows... & Powershell VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2026-06-12 01:56 -0500
Re: Coreutils for Windows... & Powershell Bob Vloon <usenet@bananacorp.nl.invalid> - 2026-06-12 09:09 +0000
Re: Coreutils for Windows... & Powershell Anssi Saari <anssi.saari@usenet.mail.kapsi.fi> - 2026-06-12 16:50 +0300
Re: Coreutils for Windows... & Powershell Bob Vloon <usenet@bananacorp.nl.invalid> - 2026-06-16 16:59 +0000
Re: Coreutils for Windows... & Powershell VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2026-06-12 14:11 -0500
Re: Coreutils for Windows... & Powershell rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-06-12 20:04 +0000
Re: Coreutils for Windows... & Powershell Bob Vloon <usenet@bananacorp.nl.invalid> - 2026-06-16 17:10 +0000
Re: Coreutils for Windows... & Powershell Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2026-06-12 13:12 -0400
Re: Cygwin64 "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2026-06-13 19:09 +0800
Re: Coreutils for Windows Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2026-06-12 13:00 -0400
Re: Coreutils for Windows "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2026-06-13 19:10 +0800
Re: Coreutils for Windows VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2026-06-13 14:04 -0500
Re: Coreutils for Windows Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.moc> - 2026-06-21 00:59 +0300
Re: Coreutils for Windows Jason H <jason_hindle@yahoo.com> - 2026-06-13 22:23 +0000
Re: Coreutils for Windows rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-06-14 01:22 +0000
Re: Coreutils for Windows Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2026-06-14 08:34 -0400
Re: Coreutils for Windows rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-06-14 18:51 +0000
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