On Thursday 03 April 2008 09:42:33 pm Greg Chicares wrote: > 'cygwin1.dll' handles the posix emulation, which many *nix apps > need. If you want to do without the dll, then you have to do > without the posix emulation. Generally, that means rewriting the > program to use the msw api instead: e.g., translating fork() to > CreateProcess(), which is not always trivial. Some apps build > OOTB because they're designed to work on multiple platforms, but > that's by no means the universal practice. so the only difference is the availability of the autotools? -- Caleb Cushing my blog http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com
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