pacman on cygwin

phrakture · 2004-12-06 21:41:49

In another post I had mentioned that I don't have a linux machine and my knickers are getting in a bunch.... so I installed cygwin at work to mess with.

Now, just for kicks I was going to try and compile pacman on cygwin.... I understand that none of the binaries will work... but that's not what I'm after - I just want it to compile, I don't care if it runs.... heh

now to compile libtar

cactus · 2004-12-06 23:30:21

z4ziggy · 2004-12-07 00:16:54

should be worth a laugh or two

tehdely · 2004-12-07 04:51:33

I don't see what's so funny

Pacman is easily ported to other architectures. It's already working quite nicely on BSD, which of course was pretty trivial; cygwin should not be significantly more difficult.

Please have a play at it and tell us how it goes 8)

phrakture · 2004-12-07 05:09:03

tehdely wrote:

I don't see what's so funny

for me its really just a humor factor - similar to running notepad through wine...

dp · 2004-12-07 15:11:37

phrakture wrote:

tehdely wrote:
I don't see what's so funny
for me its really just a humor factor - similar to running notepad through wine...

or even IE ;-)

phrakture · 2004-12-07 15:55:50

dp wrote:

phrakture wrote:
tehdely wrote:
I don't see what's so funny
for me its really just a humor factor - similar to running notepad through wine...
or even IE ;-)

oh my god... good idea!!! i have to do that...
i should be able to just run it off my ntfs partition....

syamajala · 2005-02-06 16:50:26

An even better idea would be to try running it on os x like portage. I'll give it a try.

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#1 2004-12-06 21:41:49

pacman on cygwin

#2 2004-12-06 23:30:21

Re: pacman on cygwin

#3 2004-12-07 00:16:54

Re: pacman on cygwin

#4 2004-12-07 04:51:33

Re: pacman on cygwin

#5 2004-12-07 05:09:03

Re: pacman on cygwin

#6 2004-12-07 15:11:37

Re: pacman on cygwin

#7 2004-12-07 15:55:50

Re: pacman on cygwin

#8 2005-02-06 16:50:26

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