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Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 13:24:59 -0500
To: Theo Verelst <theover AT tiscali DOT nl>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: Larry Hall <cygwin-lh AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: Compiling .sys files
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At 12:37 PM 1/14/2004, Theo Verelst you wrote:

>Dear readers,
>
>Though I realize it is not exactly the purpose of cygwin to make windows things work, but rather have the power of unix available under windows, too, I was wondering if it is reasonably possible to generate .sys files which are understood by for isntance XP, so that a driver can be compiled with cygwin.


Yes.  See <http://www.cygwin.com/packages/ioperm/ioperm-0.4-1>.  This
package contains a Windows driver built with and for Cygwin.


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