New version of catgod for v3.08

lch · #1 May 10th, 2007, 09:23 PM

Hehe, all the Windows fanboys are whimpering... You could install Cygwin or AndLinux under Windows if you can't wait for a windows version...

MaxWilson · #2 May 10th, 2007, 10:07 PM

How is Cygwin going to help if you don't have the source code?

-Maximilian

llamabeast · #3 May 11th, 2007, 11:02 AM

What, Max? Doesn't cygwin just let you run linux programs on windows as if you were just running linux?

lch · #4 May 11th, 2007, 11:09 AM

Oops, I was expecting that Cygwin can run ELF binaries natively equivalent to how Wine works for Linux users. Then you're [censored] out of luck unless you'll really boot a (virtual) linux system / live CD or use that AndLinux thing, it seems.

MaxWilson · #5 May 11th, 2007, 04:30 PM

Cygwin is a POSIX layer for Windows, but it's not binary-compatible with Linux any more than Linux is binary-compatible with IRIX. AFAIK, UNIX programs don't usually expect to be binary-compatible with other UNIXes, which is part of the reason everything gets distributed as source code. Cygwin ensures that POSIX-like behaviors happen (e.g. you can use signals) even if they don't naturally exist under Windows, but you have to compile with the Cygwin headers.

http://www.cygwin.com/
"Cygwin is NOT a way to run native linux apps on Windows. You have to rebuild your application from source if you want it to run on Windows.
Cygwin is NOT a way to magically make native Windows apps aware of UNIX � functionality, like signals, ptys, etc. Again, you need to build your apps from source if you want to take advantage of Cygwin functionality."

-Max

lch · #6 May 12th, 2007, 09:07 AM

Yeah, it's been a couple of years since I used Win* systems and Cygwin in particular, didn't expect that. Compiling against Cygwin would be an easy way for Evil Dave to make his program available to Win* users without changing the source much, though. Then again, it probably wouldn't even require that anyway, just normal compilation as a Win32 executable.

Gandalf Parker · #7 May 12th, 2007, 02:29 PM

There is an effort in works but it uses an xwindows build to get to a windows build. Im afraid that I bombed out in providing an xwindows environment but Im still messing with it to se if I can get it working on my servers.