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: <4238C25B.505E9141@dessent.net> Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 15:33:47 -0800 From: Brian Dessent Organization: My own little world... MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Single Packaged Shell? References: <7dd7b97a05031512037bc6fb10@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com John Westbrook wrote: > I have heard that you can compile perl code into c code, so I was > wondering if anything similar exists for shell scripts or even cygwin > itself. Ideally I would like to distribute an executable that uses a > shell script as its entry point, but does not require a cygwin > installation on the host. This is off-topic, but you may be more interested in native ports of the GNU tools, such as or . They are designed to be standalone, and don't depend on a Cygwin environment. Of course they might not work quite the same as some functionality is likely missing. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/