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What kind of skill set would a hacker need to make the necessary contributions to cygwin, and how much work might it be?
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At this point, someone who knows a fair amount about Unix build environments (e.g. configure, gcc, libtool, shared libraries etc) and embedding Tcl. When I try to build AOLserver on Cygwin the configure script complains that it doesn't know how to build shared libraries on the target platform, and then dies when compiling and linking some of the Tcl stuff. I suspect this might be because Cygwin includes Tcl itself, so the include/linker paths might simply need to be adjusted.
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I have confidence that someone with the right knowledge could do this without too much hassle. I think all the essential pieces are now in Cygwin (e.g. I think the threading issues with pthreads have been corrected).
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