From: Crispen, Bob (Robert.Crispen@HSV.Boeing.com)
Date: Mon Oct 11 1999 - 07:53:10 CDT
Daniel Stenberg[SMTP:Daniel.Stenberg@frontec.se] sez:
> Actually, you _can_ run configure scripts with cygwin in Windows. It has a
> bash shell and everything.
>
Yup. Configure works fine. Of course, as I
discovered this weekend, if you don't happen to
have a needed header file and your configure
script doesn't happen to check whether you've
got it, you probably aren't going to be able to
compile everything ;-)
But I regularly use configure, and have always
get better results faster than from hacking the
makefile by hand.
> The main drawback is that cygwin has its own DLL
> you have to carry around to be able to run the binary you built with
> cygwin.
> The main benefit is that builds unix software very good, often with almost
> no fiddling.
>
Mingw32 (and the egcs codebase) are now rolled in
to cygwin32. "gcc -mno-cygwin" will (try to) compile
and link independently of cygwin.dll. I don't recall
anything in hypermail that would require cygwin.dll.
Remember, the only aggravation from having to have
that dll is when you distribute binaries.
Bob Crispen
bob.crispen@boeing.com