How important is Cygwin support for host tools?

[Cudmore, Alan P. (GSFC-5820)]

I don’t know anyone that currently uses Cygwin for RTEMS development. The projects I am aware of use Linux and Linux virtual machines. At home I have been able to build RTEMS toolchains and build RTEMS using WSL, so I would use WSL before picking up Cygwin again. WSL 2.0 is supposed to improve speed and compatibility by using a real Linux kernel. 

Alan


On 5/30/19, 8:42 AM, "devel on behalf of Jiri Gaisler" <devel-bounces at rtems.org on behalf of jiri at gaisler.se> wrote:

    Does anyone still use Cygwin for RTEMS development? The reason I ask is
    that I have some portability issues for sis (no async I/O on sockets in
    Cygwin) and I would like to avoid some ugly workarounds if possible. In
    the age of virtualization and even WSL in Win 10, do we still need
    Cygwin ...?
    
    Jiri.
    
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