[Info-vax] This is for the folks who get comp.os.vms via the Info-VAX mailing list

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 12/12/2023 7:01 PM, Chris Townley wrote:
> On 12/12/2023 23:53, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 12/12/2023 8:18 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>> Think of it as a seriously beefed-up version of POSIX that even allows
>>> you to run X under Windows.
>>
>> I think that is a very accurate description.
>>
>> It is also very close to how Cygwin itself sees it.
>>
>> https://www.cygwin.com/faq.html#faq.what.what
>>
>> <quote>
>> What is it?
>>
>>
>> Cygwin is a distribution of popular GNU and other Open Source tools 
>> running on Microsoft Windows. The core part is the Cygwin library 
>> which provides the POSIX system calls and environment these programs 
>> expect.
>>
>> The Cygwin distribution contains thousands of packages from the Open 
>> Source world including most GNU tools, many BSD tools, an X server and 
>> a full set of X applications. If you're a developer you will find 
>> tools, headers and libraries allowing to write Windows console or GUI 
>> applications that make use of significant parts of the POSIX API. 
>> Cygwin allows easy porting of many Unix programs without the need for 
>> extensive changes to the source code. This includes configuring and 
>> building most of the available GNU or BSD software, including the 
>> packages included with the Cygwin distribution themselves. They can be 
>> used from one of the provided Unix shells like bash, tcsh or zsh.
>> </quote>
>>
> Don't forget MS also has msys2 that runs in the same way

That I have never used.

Google finds:

https://www.msys2.org/wiki/How-does-MSYS2-differ-from-Cygwin/

with some description of how it compares to Cygwin.

Arne