Re: RFA: Support Windows extended error numbers in safe_strerror

[Corinna Vinschen <vinschen@redhat.com>]

On Feb  6 02:18, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-mailing-list-please@cygwin.com>
> wa  However, it should be
> quite clear that, since Cygwin is a coherent system of tools that need
> to work together, [...]

That's a misconception.  You're mixing Cygwin, the distribution with
Cygwin, the DLL.  Take a tool and the libraries it's linked against,
and you're all set.

> When I considered installing the Cygwin GDB, the questions that bugged
> me were like "will gdbtui work without the Cygwin terminal/rxvt/whatever?",

Yes it works, like every other Cygwin CLI tool, in the standard
Windows console.  Why should it be different?

> "will Insight work without Xfree86?"

No, you never needed XFree86 for Insight since the Tcltk package
is Windows GUI based, and it is so for since its beginnings.

> "do I need Bash or other
> packages installed, and what are those packages?"

No.

> , etc.  I didn't find
> answers to those questions, and AFAICS (although I cannot say I
> searched too hard) those answers still aren't available today;

You could have asked.


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Project Co-Leader
Red Hat