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Re: cygwin and the rest of the Windows
- From: "Ling F. Zhang" <lingfengz at yahoo dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 10:35:45 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: cygwin and the rest of the Windows
- Reply-to: lingfengz at yahoo dot com
okay! the question is this then: say I write a perl
script...
should the first line be
#/usr/bin/perl
or
#C:\cygwin\usr\bin\perl ?
thank you
--- Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Jun 2003, Ling F. Zhang wrote:
>
> > I successfully ran both the cygwin apache (1.3x)
> and
> > windows native one (2.x). So I need to chose one
> to
> > run (as they wouldn't share port 80)...sine I
> usually
> > do my cgi in perl and shell-script, cygwin is the
> > clear choice...but I do miss such feature as
> WebDAV in
> > the version 2 (I didn't feel like recompiling
> apache
> > on cygwin just to mess things up). So, here's the
> > question, is it possible for windows to use cygwin
> > developement tools? as in, can I use the cygwin
> perl
> > interpretor to interpret my perl script if the
> apache
> > is the windows native one?
>
> Ling,
>
> Yes, it's theoretically possible, as long as the
> Cygwin /bin directory is
> in the path. There may be some peculiarities
> specific to your system that
> you'd have to solve (in particular, all the scripts
> will get Win32 paths
> as parameters, rather than Cygwin POSIX paths), but
> there's nothing major
> that prevents you from doing this.
> Igor
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