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Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 19:18:35 -0700
From: Brian Dessent <brian AT dessent DOT net>
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C Jennings wrote:

> This might be a stupid question but is it possible to install Linux
> software onto Cygwin.

No.

> I currently have Cygwin + 3.1.4 KDE installed on my Windows XP box.
> I've downloaded (wget) a tar file of the Java J2EE SDK v1.3.1 and
> installed it using the following command provided on Sun's website:
> 
> tar xvzf j2sdkee-1_3_1-linux.tar.gz

You need to use the win32 j2sdk.

> I don't know if it won't work because Cygwinis a port of the linux OS
> and you can therefore only install the ported utilites that are
> already provided by Cygwin such as Nedit or if i am doing something
> wrong?

Cygwin is not Linux in any shape or form.  Cygwin is a set of libraries
that provide a Linux-like API that allows you to build unix/posix
applications as Windows binaries.  This compatibility exists on the
source level only, there is no chance whatsoever of being able to
execute a Linux binary.  All of the ported applications that you have
mentioned have been recompiled from source.

Brian

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