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Re: GNU utilities for Win32




On Mon, 4 Aug 1997, Shlomi Fish wrote:

> Yes, I know about the Cygnus collection and I even tried it here, at work.

i'm very glad you know about them. in fact, we are all glad.

> Its utilities have some problems though:
> 1. They require a 3 MB DLL called cygwin.dll to be present in the
> c:\windows\system directory.
> 2. They do not process wild character expressions themselves. Thus, if you
> type "grep hello *.*" on a DOS box, it won'twork because there is no such
> file called "*.*". In UNIX the shell replaces wild characters expressions
> with the filenames list, and that's what all the Cygnus utilities expect.
> Therefore, they will only function properly from within the Win32 port of
> Bash that is included there.

i think you just answered your own question - when using them, use their
bash. thought it had problems with file name completion under samba, as
well as launching vim on a file given the file's full path...

> 3. Most of them come as part of a very large archive.

4. using 'cp -p' with the cp of cygwin does not work.

but seriously, we did manage to use them utils in order to get an
application writtein in C++ on solaris, to compile using MSVC+ 5.0
(accessing the sources and placing the binaries on the unix server via
samba).

i don't know how you call this, but i call it 'working'.

guy.

p.s. i'm also glad that you know DJGPP.


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