Tested the Ubuntu command lind to replace Cygwin as build system

[Raphael Bircher <rb...@gmail.com>]

Hi all

Matthias mentioned the new Ubuntu command line system on Windows for  
building AOO on Windows. At the moment we use Cygwin for this. I invest  
some time in it, and found out, that this is not a solution. The problem,  
You can't start a windows program out of the Ubuntu command line. So you  
won't be able to start MSVC from the buildscript.

But the tool as it self is interesting. So it's not a waste of time to try  
it out. But in our case, it doesn't help.

Regards, Raphael

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Re: Tested the Ubuntu command lind to replace Cygwin as build system

[Matthias Seidel <ma...@hamburg.de>]

Am 30.06.2017 um 14:51 schrieb Raphael Bircher:
> Hi all
>
> Matthias mentioned the new Ubuntu command line system on Windows for
> building AOO on Windows. At the moment we use Cygwin for this. I
> invest some time in it, and found out, that this is not a solution.
> The problem, You can't start a windows program out of the Ubuntu
> command line. So you won't be able to start MSVC from the buildscript.

Sure you can... ;-)
https://www.howtogeek.com/285082/how-to-run-windows-programs-from-windows-10s-bash-shell/

But the main problem is, that the scripts think they are on Linux,
because they can't find Cygwin...

>
> But the tool as it self is interesting. So it's not a waste of time to
> try it out. But in our case, it doesn't help.

If we could fake Ubuntu bash under Windows to present itself as Cygwin
it could be a replacement. Nothing more, nothing less.
For Windows we should work on another solution for the future.

Regards, Matthias

>
> Regards, Raphael
>