[racket] "Hybrid" Racket on Cygwin

From: Eli Barzilay (eli at barzilay.org)
Date: Sun Sep 19 16:44:14 EDT 2010

On Sep 19, Thomas Chust wrote:
> 2010/9/19 Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org>:
> > That's likely to be very difficult, since the Windows stuff is
> > very different from the usual configure script.  But do you really
> > need to have a cygwin build?
> > [...]
> 
> if this is so much more complicated than I thought it is probably
> not worth the effort. I will just use an X11-based build in that
> case.

It's still not clear to me why you want a cygwin build instead of a
plain windows build.  The only thing I can think of is being able to
handle cygwin symlinks -- but that doesn't sound like it makes a case
for using a (much slower) cygwin build...

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