[ntp:hackers] hackers] Working with NTP code...

juergen perlinger juergen.perlinger at t-online.de
Wed Oct 2 22:02:57 UTC 2013


On 10/02/2013 04:32 PM, Greg Dowd wrote:
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> I used to have a set of non cygwin UNIX utilities in DOS.  It was called mkstools from the makers of the sourceintegrity sccs tool.  I doubt it's available anymore but who knows.
AFAIK MKS tools is still around, but it's a commercial product.
minGW/mSYS is an alternative if you're looking for something that's
free. (Free as in free speech, not in free beer. You know what I mean.)
If you really want a more complete environment, cygwin is the best
possibility, IMHO. On my old WinXP system (the one I use for backward
compat regression tests) I use minGW/mSYS, including openSSH  to access
my account on psp.ntp.org, and it works really good. That includes the
bitkeeper access via SSH. It has a much smaller footprint than cygwin,
since it runs on native Win32 without the Posix emulation layer, and
provides most of the stuff you will likely need. Including things like
bash, grep/egrep, openSSH, vim, wget, tar,...

While I think cygwin is great (especially if you want 64-bit binaries),
minGW/mSYS is a quite viable alternative.

But that's just my opinion.

Cheers,
    J


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