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Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 15:33:47 -0800
From: Brian Dessent <brian AT dessent DOT net>
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John Westbrook wrote:

> I have heard that you can compile perl code into c code, so I was
> wondering if anything similar exists for shell scripts or even cygwin
> itself. Ideally I would like to distribute an executable that uses a
> shell script as its entry point, but does not require a cygwin
> installation on the host.

This is off-topic, but you may be more interested in native ports of the
GNU tools, such as <http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/> or
<http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/>.  They are designed to be standalone,
and don't depend on a Cygwin environment.  Of course they might not work
quite the same as some functionality is likely missing.

Brian

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