Cygwin compatability

[tejasmanohar]

https://github.com/d11wtq/boris#architecture-overview

Hmm, we could replicate this in a Windows environment by making use of Cygwin's POSIX functions. This is something I'd like to hear some feedback on from the community!

[Sleavely]

I'm probably a year and a half late to the party, but yes. That'd be lovely. As someone who's only workstation OS is Windows-based I primarily use the Git Bash/Cygwin console for anything that doesn't explicitly require the Windows command prompt.

I noticed that about a week after opening this issue you created a page on the wiki where it says "there's no chance it can work on Windows"; was this with Cygwin in mind as well?

[dhotson]

Ah yeah, I think Cygwin support sounds like it could be plausible. :)

There's was also this thing announced a few months ago for running linux binaries natively: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Subsystem_for_Linux

[RichardBradley]

Has anyone tried this? It looks to me like, if you used Cygwin PHP, this might just work out of the box.

I am using Cygwin, but I have Windows PHP installed.

I don't see a "pcntl" package for Cygwin, but it does have "php-posix" which might contain the pcntl extension?