[Xastir-dev] More fun with Cygwin - automake complaint

[KF4LVZ]

On 2016-07-10 15:23, Jason KG4WSV wrote:
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>> On Jul 10, 2016, at 5:06 PM, davidf4 <davidf4 at mindspring.com> wrote:
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>> The joys of using a product that may or may not be updated..
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> Do very many still use Cygwin?
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> I would have thought the availability of free virtualization would have killed it off by now, especially for applications like xastir.  
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> But the Microsoft appears to be reinventing the Cygwin wheel, so maybe I'm just out of the loop. 
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> -Jason

I use both virtual machines and Cygwin.  Cygwin is useful for some basic
functionality without having to spin up an entire virtual machine.  I
use it a lot for scripting, making small C programs, using certain tools
like Image Magick, and for getting some daemons (like sshd) running on
Windows machines.

I use virtual machines for very heavy operations like cross compiling,
testing large daemons (e.g. Apache), and other situations for which
Cygwin won't work.

Having Xastir pop up in a near-native window on Windows instead of
having to have a whole virtual machine is quite handy.