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Old 05-09-2007
Running UNIX in windows environment ?

Hi...

I have planned to run UNIX application in window environment such as cygwin. Actually, I have download the "cygwin" software but there are some libraries are not applicable in the software.

Due to that, anybody know any others unix sofware can be run in windows XP environment ?
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Old 05-10-2007
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Originally Posted by bh_hensem
Due to that, anybody know any others unix sofware can be run in windows XP environment ?
Try Microsoft's "Services For UNIX", aka SFU. This is a complete UNIX like environment including gcc.

I run both SFU and Cygwin on XP.
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