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Re: Windows Subsystem For Linux
- From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at yandex dot ru>
- To: lloyd dot wood at yahoo dot co dot uk, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 23:45:11 +0300
- Subject: Re: Windows Subsystem For Linux
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Greetings, lloyd.wood@yahoo.co.uk!
> A viewpoint on this whole Windows Ubuntu Frankenstein hybrid vs Cygwin thing:
> In comparison with the difficulties trying to build Geomview under 64-bit Cygwin,
> then discovering the piping issues that prevent it working with modules, using
> the Windows Ubuntu subsystem to install pre-existing Ubuntu packages and dependencies
> turned out to be surprisingly straightforward and user friendly.
> Compare the instructions on:
> http://personal.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/L.Wood/software/SaVi/building-under-Windows/
> and you can see why the complex build-on-Cygwin instructions are now listed last. (I also had
> no problem pulling in gcc and tk-dev and building SaVi from source. Haven't yet tried with
> Geomview!)
> I think Cygwin's Xming will soon be the most popular Cygwin spinoff, filling the same
> free Xserver role that XQuartz does on Mac OS X now that no longer ships an Xserver
> with the OS, and I think we're all going to be very grateful that Xming exists.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xming
Now try to pipe something from a native application to your UFW build, and
then the results from it to something else native.
I'm eagerly awaiting reports of your success.
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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Tuesday, August 30, 2016 23:43:58
Sorry for my terrible english...
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