[Info-vax] Free Pascal for VMS ?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 5/16/2018 9:28 AM, Paul Sture wrote:
> On 2018-05-16, Scott Dorsey <kludge at panix.com> wrote:
>> =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?=  <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>>>
>>> WSL is not in any way tied to Ubuntu. Ubuntu was just
>>> the first userland package they supported.
>>>
>>> WSL is not targeting the ordinary Windows user. It is
>>> targeting developers using Windows that need
>>> tools only available on Linux or to build for
>>> Linux or test on Linux.
>>>
>>> Most people that have tried it think it works
>>> pretty well.
>>
>> WSL is not even the opposite of WINE, it is more like a replacement
>> for Cygnus.
>>
>> Like Cygnus, it mostly works, except when it doesn't, and it employs a
>> mix of Windows and Unix syntax which can be very confusing when you need
>> to remember whether you use a forward slash or a backslash in this path.....
> 
> s/Cygnus/Cygwin/%wh
> 
> Cygnus is a hex editor, Cygwin is the product you are thinking of.
> 
> <http://www.softcircuits.com/Products/Cygnus>
> 
> <https://cygwin.com/>

The Cygwin product was created by a company Cygnus Solutions that
got acquired by Redhat back in 1999-2000.

> Cygwin is:
> 
>      - a large collection of GNU and Open Source tools which provide
>        functionality similar to a Linux distribution on Windows.
> 
>      - a DLL (cygwin1.dll) which provides substantial POSIX API
>        functionality.
> 
> Cygwin is not:
> 
>      - a way to run native Linux apps on Windows. You must rebuild your
>        application from source if you want it to run on Windows.
> 
>      - a way to magically make native Windows apps aware of UNIX®
>        functionality like signals, ptys, etc. Again, you need to build your
>        apps from source if you want to take advantage of Cygwin
>        functionality.

Yes.

I still think Wine is a better comparison.

Arne