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Re: scsh on Windows

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Subject: Re: scsh on Windows
From: quixote72@hotmail.com (Pedro Pinto)
Date: 18 Sep 2002 08:09:12 -0700
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I think you could probably just bundle the cygwin.dll with your
distribution and have scsh use that dll instead of the system one
(assuming that there are no legal issues). Doesn't ruby work that way?

-pp


briqueabraque@yahoo.com ("Maur cio") wrote in message 
news:<am7693$5ms$1@main.gmane.org>...
> I had problems with cygwin that I was not able to solve. In one machine,
> it was very slow (everything else was fast). However, it's more important to
> me that I can distribute scsh as a standalone executable file. I don't want
> the user to have the problem of checking his cygwin version. Is it possible
> to do that with cygwin?
> 
>     Maurício
> 
> 
> "Pedro Pinto" <quixote72@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> 2ecbc75f.0209170336.355d8a2@posting.google.com">news:2ecbc75f.0209170336.355d8a2@posting.google.com...
> > Mauricio,
> >
> > Why is it that you cannot use cygwin?
> >
> > -pp
> >
> >
> > briqueabraque@yahoo.com ("Maur cio") wrote in message
>  news:<am4s9j$4oe$1@main.gmane.org>...
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > >     I've been working on a project where I have to write many shell
>  scripts.
> > > I would like to use scheme (scsh or guile seems good options) to do
>  that,
> > > but I need a native windows version (cygwin is not an option). I had to
> > > learn Ruby (which is nice, but I don't like it very much).
> > >     What would be the problems involved in compiling scsh on Windows? I
> > > understand there's a lot of unix behaviors that do not work the same way
>  on
> > > Windows, but that's also true for Ruby. Has anyone tried that? Is it
>  just
> > > impossible or it's something easily doable if someone needs it?
> > >
> > >     Thanks,
> > >     Maurício
> >

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