Will bash run on operating systems other than Unix?

Will bash run on operating systems other than Unix? 


Configuration specifics for Unix-like systems such as QNX and

LynxOS are included in the distribution.  Bash-2.05 and later

versions should compile and run on Minix 2.0 (patches were

contributed), but I don't believe anyone has built bash-2.x on

earlier Minix versions yet. 



Bash has been ported to versions of Windows implementing the Win32

programming interface.  This includes Windows 95 and Windows NT.

The port was done by Cygnus Solutions as part of their CYGWIN

project.  For more information about the project, look at the URLs



http://www.cygwin.com/

http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin



Cygnus originally ported bash-1.14.7, and that port was part of their

early GNU-Win32 (the original name) releases.  Cygnus has also done a

port of bash-2.05 to the CYGWIN environment, and it is available as

part of their current release.



Bash-2.05a should require no local Cygnus changes to build and run under

CYGWIN.



The Cygnus port works only on Intel machines.  There is a port of bash

(I don't know which version) to the alpha/NT environment available from



ftp://ftp.gnustep.org//pub/win32/bash-alpha-nt-1.01.tar.gz



DJ Delorie has a port of bash-2.x which runs under MS-DOS, as part

of the DJGPP project.  For more information on the project, see



http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/



I have been told that the original DJGPP port was done by Daisuke Aoyama.



Mark Elbrecht  has sent me notice that bash-2.04

is available for DJGPP V2.  The files are available as:



ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/bsh204b.zip	binary

ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/bsh204d.zip	documentation

ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/bsh204s.zip	source



Mark has begun to work with bash-2.05, but I don't know the status.



Ports of bash-1.12 and bash-2.0 are available for OS/2 from



ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/util/shell/bash_112.zip

ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/util/shell/bash-2.0(253).zip



I haven't looked at either, but the second appears to be a binary-only

distribution.  Beware.



I have received word that Bash (I'm not sure which version, but I

believe that it's at least bash-2.02.1) is the standard shell on

BeOS.

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