Setup automated Windows builds/CI using Cygwin on ReactOS
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I suggested this before in https://github.com/magnumripper/JohnTheRipper/issues/2372#issuecomment-270007448 but at the time I thought that ReactOS wouldn't run Cygwin.
It appears that since mid-2016 ReactOS is finally able to run Cygwin:
https://twitter.com/reactos/status/735141249775194112
https://jira.reactos.org/browse/CORE-7739
so maybe we should proceed with that setup, in a VM. Or maybe two setups: 32-bit and 64-bit.
Also relevant is this comment from the above ReactOS JIRA entry:
Carlo Bramini added a comment - 2016-12-08 12:35
I think it would be worth to remind that CYGWIN does not support anymore XP/2003.
Last version expected to work is 2.5.2, but keep in mind that it is not binary compatible with recent packages, so replacing just cygwin1.dll won't work.
Since we probably still want our JtR builds to work on XP/2003, perhaps we should stick to Cygwin <=2.5.2.
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