Sorry for starting a new thread in this
topic.
Actually, I don't know how far people have gone in
this thread.
Well, I heard someone calling upon Cygwin, hence
I'm here.
This mail is intended for people who want Linux on
Win2k only for
development kinda thing, otherwise you can use
VMWare to
install the complete Linux inside Win2k. Mind you,
even though VMWare create a swap file
for Linux filesystem, it is damn fast as compared
to Linux on FAT32.
Ok, regarding the development kinda thing
:
Currently there are at least 3 active projects
which are targeted at porting GNU utils on Windows.
1. Cygwin :
A project by RedHat Inc. - The only drawbacks are
huge size & needs to be installed online(I guess)
Otherwise a good piece of software. Allows creation
of DLLs as well.
2. MingW :
This project is currently unmaintained as far as
GNU compliance goes - started out with GNU compliance.
This is now part of a project called BloodShed
Compilers - again free.
And my favourite :
3. DJGPP :
This is a full-fledged suite of GNU Utils including
different shells, compilers, E-Macs, binutis, filutils etc.
This project is maintained by a guy named DJ
Delorie & others.
Very good in all respects & actively
maintained.
Though the size of the project is large about 200
MB - including all additional libraries like ALLEGRO -
A Low - LEvel
Game ROutine for game development etc, it is distributed as
small parts in form of zips.
This is an Open Source project, so can get the
source code if anyone wants.
I use it on Win2k at home - without any
problems.
It uses COFF with MS-DOS stub (header)
added.
Kunal
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A computer scientist is someone who fixes things
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