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someone had the great idea to create #cygwin for #win9x!
> "Run Linux apps on Windows 95 with Windows 9x subsystem for Linux"
> Microsoft introduced a Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) with Windows 10. Initially it allowed you to run command line Linux utilities in Windows, but over time Microsoft added support for applications with a graphical user interface. But WSL still only officially supports Windows 10 and Windows 11. What if you want to run Linux apps on an older version of Windows?
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> Enter the Windows 9x subsystem for Linux (WSL9x), an unofficial tool for running Linux apps on Windows 95, an operating system that’s more than three decades old.
https://liliputing.com/run-native-linux-apps-on-windows-95-with-windows-9x-subsystem-for-linux/ -
Another useful #writing tool I almost forget to mention is wc. You'll find it on #Linux and #BSD distros. On Windows, #msys and #cygwin offer a version. There are several implementations of wc out there including versions in Busybox and Toybox. If you want to build it yourself or modify it, sbase has a straight forward version:
https://git.suckless.org/sbase/file/wc.c.html
Have a happy #SoftwareFreedomDay2024 #SFD #SoftwareFreedomDay #DFF #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #FOSS #FLOSS -
right, to sort of answer my own question regarding #unf / #unfExt under #CygWin, which is a dependency of #faraday-cookie_jar->http-cookie->domain_name->unf->unf_ext, I managed to get it working with:
apt-cyg install ruby subversion make openssh openssl openssl-devel sqlite3 git git-completion nano gccmakedep gcc-core libgcc1 libgccpp1 gcc-g++ zlib-devel libiconv-develNot sure which pkg it actually fixed, but this worked for http-cookies as well as Nokogiri.