Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 21:56:35 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygwin under Wine? Message-ID: <20040326025635.GB17415@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 07:33:52PM -0500, Thomas L Roche wrote: >Can Cygwin currently run under Wine? Why I ask: > >While sounding out Cygwin users in my organization, I got the comment: 1) Why not *try* running cygwin under Wine? The only way to know for sure is to actually try it anyway. You can't rely on anecdotal evidence. 2) Please don't use this list as a fact gathering mechanism for your internal requirements. >> If Cygwin would run under Wine, I'd be a very happy person, we >> wouldn't need real Windows machines for builds, and we could consign >> all our Windows build machines, their ITSC compliance, and the >> continual stream of updates and security fixes to the deepest pits >> of hell. 3) As Larry noted, you could use a cross-compiler. I know that you maintain that you would do testing under Wine but it seems rather foolhardy to do all of your testing on an emaulator rather than a real Windows system. I don't think your customers would be pleased if Wine somehow masked a problem that only manifested on, say, Windows Server 2003. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/