From: Chad Fowler <chad@...>
Date: 2003-09-23T07:35:55+09:00
Subject: Re: fork not available?

On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Lee Fisher wrote:

# | 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.
# 

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