Re: Minimal setup to build apps from source?

["Larry Hall \(Cygwin\)" <reply-to-list-only-lh at cygwin dot com>]

On 7/15/2010 8:17 PM, Monte Cabet wrote:
> I always hear some applications thrown out there that you should have to
> build software from source like gcc and vim, but is there a more
> complete list of what is required? I built up somewhat of a list for
> myself to track what I've installed, but there seems to be a lot of
> missing points. Some of the list is as follows (there is tons more, but
> this is what I feel this necessary as of now):

<snipped list of packages Cygwin already provides>

> If I, and everybody else who needs, can get some help to atleast build
> some of the applications that everybody wishes that would be very
> beneficial! Thank you.

It's not really clear to me what you're asking for but if you're just
looking for these packages, you can get them (and many others) pre-built by 
installing them using 'setup.exe' from cygwin.com.  If instead you want to
know what packages are prerequisites to build a package, that's information
that you get from the package of interest.  Check out its documentation.  But
there's no "complete list" of prerequisites unless you consider "all possible
packages" a valid response.

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