HP-UX

Hi all,

am new to the forum. i would like to check with the community whether anyone had tried to run self-developed UNIX apps on the CYGWIN? Does the CYGWIN presents a friendly environment to host the UNIX apps? thanks

Yes it does - the default shell is bash, it has dash (ksh clone).

thanks for your response..hmm..just to be clear..i meant not script executeables but programs of "C"/"JAVA"/"ADA" executeables..can CYGWIN support them? thanks again.

I don't personally use cygwin. But I'm 100% sure cygwin can support the development and compilation of C programs and various other programming languages. cygwin is definitely worth trying out as a development platform.

Another option to consider of course is to use a Linux or other native UNIX computer. cygwin may be more convenient if you are going to cross-compile programs to run under Windows. On the other hand, I find ubuntu very easy to maintain and upgrade.

No matter which path you take, there will be many details.

Well, it depends what you mean.

You can compile and run Cygwin applications inside Cygwin if you install the right applications -- gcc, headers, and so forth. But it won't run Linux binary executables natively. It's not Linux, it's Cygwin, kind of a thing unto itself.

thanks for all your replies. i am experimenting on the idea of porting my unix apps (developed in hp ux) to run on cygwin. hence unsure if it will work. CYGWIN is a preferred solutions as it is less "messy" to configure compared to others. i think..

Keep in mind that Windows system limitations apply. cygwin can emulate /-style paths, but there's nothing it can do about Windows' case-insensitive filenames for example. There's no way around that.