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:rss: Hacker NewsMinC Is Not Cygwin <a href="https://minc.commandlinerevolution.nl/english/home.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://minc.commandlinerevolution.nl/english/home.html</a> <a href="https://rss-mstdn.studiofreesia.com/tags/ycombinator" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ycombinator</a> <a href="https://rss-mstdn.studiofreesia.com/tags/MinC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MinC</a> <a href="https://rss-mstdn.studiofreesia.com/tags/Cygwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cygwin</a> <a href="https://rss-mstdn.studiofreesia.com/tags/OpenBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenBSD</a> <a href="https://rss-mstdn.studiofreesia.com/tags/Windows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Windows</a> <a href="https://rss-mstdn.studiofreesia.com/tags/Download" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Download</a> <a href="https://rss-mstdn.studiofreesia.com/tags/Features" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Features</a> <a href="https://rss-mstdn.studiofreesia.com/tags/Install" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Install</a> <a href="https://rss-mstdn.studiofreesia.com/tags/Donate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Donate</a>

Hacker NewsMinC Is Not Cygwin<a href="https://minc.commandlinerevolution.nl/english/home.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://minc.commandlinerevolution.nl/english/home.html</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HackerNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HackerNews</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MinC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MinC</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cygwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cygwin</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CommandLine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CommandLine</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Revolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Revolution</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TechNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TechNews</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenSource</a>

SourcewareSourceware Survey 2025 ResultsIn the end we got 103 (!) responses with a nice mix of developers, users and maintainers from various hosted projects.<a href="https://sourceware.org/survey-2025" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://sourceware.org/survey-2025</a><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/binutils" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#binutils</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/cygwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cygwin</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/dwarfstd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dwarfstd</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/elfutils" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#elfutils</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/gcc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gcc</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/gdb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gdb</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/glibc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#glibc</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/libabigail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#libabigail</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/newlib" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#newlib</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/systemTap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#systemTap</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/valgrind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#valgrind</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/bzip2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bzip2</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/libffi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#libffi</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/dwz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dwz</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/debugedit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#debugedit</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/gnupoke" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gnupoke</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/bunsen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bunsen</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/lvm2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lvm2</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/annobin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#annobin</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/gnu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gnu</a>-gabi <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/cgen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cgen</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/kawa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#kawa</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/insight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#insight</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/pacme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pacme</a>

Michał Fita<a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/@argv_minus_one" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@argv_minus_one</a> You know... `autoconf` was for times, when we have several <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Unix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Unix</a> systems in the field, each significantly different from each other, especially in terms of `libc` support. Today we have 3, with one having two flavours - `musl` and `glibc`; third one from <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Apple</a> is not usually that strongly supported.Then keep in mind `autoconf` was practically non-existent on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Windows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Windows</a> (and no, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cygwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cygwin</a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/msys" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#msys</a> don't count).

gugod<a href="https://github.com/gugod/App-perlbrew/actions/runs/13100409688/job/36547979805" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://github.com/gugod/App-perlbrew/actions/runs/13100409688/job/36547979805</a>Any cygwin users ?I'm trying to run perlbrew tests on cygwin on GitHub Action. Most of the setup worked but it ended up with this error of missing `crypt.h` when installing dependencies. Module::Build::Tiny in this case, but perhaps there will be more.If you know how this can be resolved or avoided, please help!<a href="https://g0v.social/tags/perlbrew" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#perlbrew</a> <a href="https://g0v.social/tags/perl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#perl</a> <a href="https://g0v.social/tags/cygwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cygwin</a>

Luke T. ShumakerOne positive thing about having been forced to use Windows many years ago is that I got exposed to <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Cygwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cygwin</a>, and the glory that is multi-line PS1 values (the default Cygwin PS1 was something along the lines of '\u@\h:\w\n\$ ').That '\n' in there makes such a difference! Separate the long info line from where you're typing!<a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/bash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bash</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/gnu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gnu</a>

R. L. Dane :debian: :openbsd:<a href="https://mastodon.social/@dheadshot" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@dheadshot</a>Pretty sure I haven't used <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/PuTTY" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PuTTY</a> once since 2013, but that's just because I've been on MacOSX and <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Linux</a> the whole time, and the few times I had to use windows, I just used <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Cygwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cygwin</a>.Not enough love, Cygwin. It's like reverse-WINE. (Of course, it does help that Windows has a (probably badly implemented and somewhat cursed) POSIX layer.)

Julius KaiserWindows isn't that bad.. you can run Cygwin on it.. and SimCity2000! 😉 <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/screenshot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#screenshot</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/minimalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#minimalism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/cygwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cygwin</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ssh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ssh</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/windows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#windows</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linux</a>

SlatianAnyone out there still using Cygwin?<a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.envs.net/tag/cygwin" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cygwin</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.envs.net/tag/windows" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#windows</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.envs.net/tag/linux" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linux</a>

lmemsmAnother useful <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writing</a> tool I almost forget to mention is wc. You'll find it on <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Linux</a> and <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/BSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BSD</a> distros. On Windows, <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/msys" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#msys</a> and <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/cygwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cygwin</a> offer a version. There are several implementations of wc out there including versions in Busybox and Toybox. If you want to build it yourself or modify it, sbase has a straight forward version: <a href="https://git.suckless.org/sbase/file/wc.c.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://git.suckless.org/sbase/file/wc.c.html</a> Have a happy <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/SoftwareFreedomDay2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SoftwareFreedomDay2024</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/SFD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SFD</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/SoftwareFreedomDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SoftwareFreedomDay</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/DFF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DFF</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenSource</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/FreeSoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FreeSoftware</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/FOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FOSS</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/FLOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FLOSS</a>

Mark CrockerWeird <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/FishShell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FishShell</a> bug... The <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/OhMyFish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OhMyFish</a> extension, argu, will complain that the `expr` command does not exist on start-up when used on <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/CygWin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CygWin</a>. Solution: add the absolute path `/bin/expr` to the argu.fish script, and it will work fine. 😒

Chewie<a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/@Codeberg" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@Codeberg</a> does <a href="https://mammut.gogreenit.net/tags/cygwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cygwin</a> count? I think they run their own git server.

jhx<a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/MSYS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MSYS</a> and <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Cygwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cygwin</a> are really useful when one is running <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Windows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Windows</a> :windows8: Of course, <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/WSL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WSL</a> helps to. I just personally like the integration of <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Cygwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cygwin</a> and <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/MSYS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MSYS</a> <a href="https://www.msys2.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.msys2.org/</a> <a href="https://www.cygwin.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.cygwin.com/</a>

niu tech<a href="https://mefi.social/@rodneylives" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@rodneylives</a> <a href="https://wetdry.world/@jame" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@jame</a> <a href="https://xoxo.zone/@scruss" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@scruss</a> <a href="https://freeradical.zone/@suetanvil" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@suetanvil</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@dillo" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@dillo</a> I've built <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Dillo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Dillo</a> 3.1.0 on Windows 11 using <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Cygwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cygwin</a> without problems and it takes only 5MB or RAM on startup, but requires X Window Server.

Petar ToushkovOrphaned junction in Windows refusing to let you delete it? rm -r the mf with <a href="https://social.petertoushkov.eu/tags/Cygwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cygwin</a>, of course 😄

KazinatorNew <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Cygnal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cygnal</a> release 3.2.0.<a href="https://www.kylheku.com/cygnal/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.kylheku.com/cygnal/</a>Cygnal is a C run-time based on and API-compatible with Cygwin.It provides the most straightforward way to turn programs from the POSIX environment into Windows applications: simply compile a Cygwin program, and ship it with the replacement CYGWIN1.DLL from the Cygnal project.<a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Programming</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/CLanguage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CLanguage</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Cygwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cygwin</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Win32" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Win32</a>

Doug Parker 🕸️<a href="https://hostux.social/@cmeier" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@cmeier</a> Is <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Cygwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cygwin</a> still popular in a <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/WSL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WSL</a> world? I legitimately haven't thought of it in years.

jhxTo anyone:Use <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/rsync" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rsync</a> - one of the most amazing tools ever. This is by far one of the first tools I install on any <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Linux</a> or <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/BSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BSD</a> system. 😎 On <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Windows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Windows</a> I use <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/cygwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cygwin</a> and install <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/rsync" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rsync</a> there 🙂

jhx<a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/rsync" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rsync</a> all the way 😉 (On <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/Windows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Windows</a> via <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/cygwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cygwin</a>)I pretty much only trust <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/rsync" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rsync</a> for moving data - never had any issues

KazinatorPeople <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#programming</a> on <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/POSIX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#POSIX</a> : do you know that there is an easy way to port programs to <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Windows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Windows</a> with native behaviors in key areas?<a href="https://www.kylheku.com/cygnal/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.kylheku.com/cygnal/</a><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Cygnal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cygnal</a> is a slight fork of of the main <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Cygwin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cygwin</a> DLL. When you slide it under a program built under Cygwin, you get a native Windows program you can redistribute.Cygnal gets rid of /cygdrive and understands paths like C:\Users\bob. And other changes, which are documented in detail with links to git commits.

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