On 3/22/06, Molle Bestefich molle.bestefich@gmail.com wrote:
Ok. Cygwin does pretty well if you're using it as a single user / do not use many processes/threads while pushing it CPU-wise.
Right -- and I think we can hew to that limitation when using msys as part of a possible wine regression test.
Eg., Cygwin will be able to run a ./configure script just fine, too.
Right, but modern cygwin is hard to support on wine, I think. The old snapshot in msys is probably easier.
There are a couple of other Windows-->Unix emulation kits readily available, so shouldn't be hard to find something that both runs reliably and can make ./configure scripts work...
Oh, really? Got URLs?
MKS Toolkit http://www.mkssoftware.com/
Commercial, not a free download. There's a way to apply for a trial, but it's not easy, and you can't just download it.
Windows Services for Unix http://www.microsoft.com/technet/interopmigration/unix/sfu/
I just tried it; it bombs on setup, complaining that the TCP/IP service isn't installed. But even if we fix that, downloading it requires a Microsoft Passport account and you have to fill out an intrusive questionaire. Also, there's no way of knowing when Microsoft will suspend free downloads. So I think that's out.
Which kind of leaves us with msys/mingw as the prime contender, I think. For starters, all we have to do is verify, say, that it can build and run a hello, world app on wine. I think that even works right now! - Dan
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