getting cygwin to run under wine

[Dan Kegel]

Michael Mauch wrote:
> Juergen Fiedler <juergen at fiedlerfamily.net> wrote:
> > I am trying to run CygWin, the Win32 version of gcc and friends, under
> > wine. Why am I not running gcc directly? It's a long story.
> > Anyway: I installed cygwin OK, but when I go to c:\cygwin\bin and do a
> > 'wine bash.exe', something _seems_ to flash up on the screen and I am
> > notified that Wine exited with a successful status.
> 
> I don't know an answer for that problem, but for the next:
> 
> > Is there a way to
> > make bash stick around so that I don't have to prepend 'wine ' to every
> > command I want to issue to any of the cygwin executables?
> 
> Yes, in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/binfmt_misc.txt there's an example
> with Wine.
> 
> In case you don't have that file: if your kernel was built with
> binfmt_misc support (= if you have the pseudo file
> /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/register), you can use:
> 
> echo ':DOSWin:M::MZ::/usr/local/bin/wine:' > /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/register

I bet he really wants to get rid of the wine startup time.
I doubt very much that what you suggest would actually make him happy.

If he can't make bash run properly, starting the cygwin programs from
wcmd is the next best thing.  Dunno if it's close enough for him, though.
- Dan