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to: MAURICE KINAL
from: TONY LANGDON
date: 2016-05-24 08:24:00
subject: Re: Conversion

-=> Maurice Kinal wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

 MK> -={ Tuesday, 24 May 2016, 05:54:02 +1000 }=-

 MK> Hey Tony!

 TL> Cygwin, etc

 MK> I thought there was/is another similar set of ports of unixie
 MK> opensource programs but perhaps that has fallen by the wayside.  I
 MK> forget now what it was called.  Also this might be a good time to
 MK> mention DJGPP which was a DOS port of gcc way back when.  Also, also,
 MK> the so-called 'hjl' branches of gcc and glibc which if I am not
 MK> mistaken are the initials of a developer Microsoft hired to look after
 MK> their opensource projects.

Cygwin has a fairly complete setup for Windows.  There is also MinGW, which is
also going strong.  Those environments are often used to make it rasier to port
*NIX applications to Windows.  Cygwin does include its own version of bash.


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