Fork not available?

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Cygwin isn’t standard Windows. fork() is not available unless you use
cygwin, which requires that your programs be GPL-compatible. I don’t
consider cygwin an acceptable requirement.

For compiling a fork-dependent codebase to generate a Windows binary,
another option is to use the Microsoft Services for Unix (“SFU”)
environment, which supports building Windows binaries from code that
uses fork().

SFU isn’t free, but it has a 120 day trial. And if it does work, I’d be
happy to donate a few copies for those involved in making building Ruby
binaries for the community.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/sfu/
http://www.interopsystems.com/tools/

Hope this helps,
Lee

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| Cygwin isn’t standard Windows. fork() is not available unless you use

| cygwin, which requires that your programs be GPL-compatible. I don’t

| consider cygwin an acceptable requirement.

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On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Lee Fisher wrote:

For compiling a fork-dependent codebase to generate a Windows binary,

another option is to use the Microsoft Services for Unix (“SFU”)

environment, which supports building Windows binaries from code that

uses fork().

SFU isn’t free, but it has a 120 day trial. And if it does work, I’d be

happy to donate a few copies for those involved in making building Ruby

binaries for the community.

Lee,

Is this something with which a free, functional build could be created and
distributed or would it require all users of the build to have a SFU
runtime installed? I’m not too familiar with SFU. If the case is the
former, I would be interested in working on this.

Chad