From: Kent Landfield (kent@hypermail.org)
Date: Mon Oct 11 1999 - 08:52:16 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
As I know very little about cygwin other than where to get it...
Could someone write up a bulleted "how-to" such as...
Getting cigwin32:
Installing cigwin32:
Unpacking hypermail:
Building Hypermail:
- run configure
- Compile hypermail
- If it does not compile
Installing hypermail:
Concerns running hypermail on a win32 system:
This would be VERY helpful to a large section of the community.
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