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error while installing radare2 on windows using cygwin
Environment
# copypaste this script into your shell and replace it with the output
./sys/install.sh
Description
Hi I was trying to install radare2 using cygwin on windows but I get this error
ar: creating libsdb.
OSTYPE: cygwin_nt-10.0-19045 ERROR: Unknown platform
Test
Cygwin support was removed some years ago, you can build it with mingw and msvc. If theres some interest on cygwin support it should be easy to add back i think
why not use wsl to replace cygwin? wsl is better option to run *nix on window.
Wsl and mingw builds work well. Cygwin is a hack on top of windows and its using a different abi, and also ships its own different headers for windows apis which makes cygwin binaries not essy to debug either. But yeah if someone wants to use cygwin it shouldnt be hard to port it again. I was not a fan of removing support for it. Can someone paste the errors you get when running this?