From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 10 05:54:32 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id FAA01924 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 10 Nov 1997 05:54:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from BIGFUN.vwcom.com (BIGFUN.vwcom.com [151.197.101.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id FAA01914 for ; Mon, 10 Nov 1997 05:54:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bmc@WillsCreek.COM) Received: from WillsCreek.COM (gw.willscreek.com [151.197.101.46]) by BIGFUN.vwcom.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id IAA01558 for ; Mon, 10 Nov 1997 08:49:41 -0500 (EST) Received: from current.willscreek.com (current.willscreek.com [172.16.87.1]) by WillsCreek.COM (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA29554 for ; Mon, 10 Nov 1997 08:51:47 -0500 (EST) Received: (from bmc@localhost) by current.willscreek.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA00412; Mon, 10 Nov 1997 08:51:46 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 08:51:46 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199711101351.IAA00412@current.willscreek.com> From: Brian Clapper MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I know how stupid this question is but.. In-Reply-To: <106472843@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.23 under Emacs 19.34.1 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Richard Lyon wrote: > Have a look at the gcc for win32 project at http://www.cygnus.com. > This project includes a shell, utilities and compiler. With the provided > libraries > it is possible to port a fair number of unix programs to run under NT. > You can also use gcc to write win32 programs. > > The site provides more details about ported applications. The number of ported apps is relatively large; I have the developer's suite of tools (i.e., the larger suite) installed on an NT box at work. Almost all the UNIX tools I commonly use are available, and they work well enough. The Cygnus GNU-Win32 page (`http://www.cygnus.com/gnu-win32/', I believe) has instructions on how to download the stuff. The page also contains pointers to other pages with ported apps; the "Virtual UNIX" link is a good one. GNU Emacs 19.34 and `tcsh' have been ported, as well; I use both, and it makes working on NT almost tolerable. Brian Clapper, bmc@WillsCreek.COM, http://WWW.WillsCreek.COM/ I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.