[wine-devel] Re: Bug 24018 which appears to be a showstopper for running Cygwin on Wine

[Hin-Tak Leung]

--- On Fri, 28/6/13, Alan W. Irwin <irwin at beluga.phys.uvic.ca> wrote:

... But I _know_ the MSYS version of cat works fine on recent
> Wine just
> like the rest of the GNU toolchain used for building
> software so if
> the MSYS and Cygwin GNU toolchain code bases have not
> diverged too
> much it should be straightforward (and probably quite fast,
...

Again, MSYS (i.e. Mingw) is not cygwin. This is probably an FAQ on mingw's web site. You really need to do some reading.

The Mingw GNU toolchain works wells under wine. The cygwin GNU toolchain don't, the last time I checked.