setup.exe, my old friend

[Max Bowsher]

Yann Crausaz <yann_crausaz@bluemail.ch> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I've built 'setup.exe', following the instructions on
> http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin-apps/setup.html.
> Is this version, 2.293, the newest available ? Is it normal that the
> file
> reaches a size of 9'882'581 bytes, against 171008 bytes of the
> download
> version ? Did I anything wrong (again) ?

- gcc version 3 produced larger .exes
- Your .exe still contains debug info (strip -s setup.exe)
- The released versions are compressed with upx (available as a Cygwin
package through setup)

> I've renamed my c:\cygwin directory to c:\cywin_tmp to simulate a
> system
> without Cygwin and I ran the application : trying to download the
> packages,
> it crashes when I reach the 'Select Packages' frame and I click on
> 'default'
> next to '+All' : "... memory cannot be 'read'"
>
> If I run the application without having renamed the c:\cygwin
> directory,
> it doesn't crash, but it's impossible to download a whole distro
> (I've click
> choosen 'Install' next to '+All' : only _update-info-dir, gnupg, pine
> and
> setup are downloaded)
>
> What's going on ???

Weird. I will think about it.

Max.