Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <20021121143006.4562.qmail@web20010.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 06:30:06 -0800 (PST) From: Joshua Daniel Franklin Subject: Re: cygwin To: geisj@pagestation.com Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com In-Reply-To: <200211202246.43715.geisj@pagestation.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii --- Jerry Geis wrote: > I am new to cygwin. I have it all installed. > I was hoping I could take an ELF executable that I > made on my linux box and just run it in the cygwin > environment. No, Cygwin can only run Windows executables. What you're looking for is something like LINE: http://line.sourceforge.net > When I do that I get: > > Sytax Error: "(" expected This error actually looks like you might be trying to recompile your software, which *is* what Cygwin is about. I'm afraid that without more information, though, there's no way to diagnose. Hmm, this may be becoming an FAQ. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus – Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/