adding optional packages

[Earnie Boyd]

--- Vincent Labella <vlabella@uark.edu> wrote:
> Hello,
> 	Besides the fact that Cygwin is freely availible, regularily
> updated and easy to install.  The thing I like most is that it comes with
> so many optional packages: libtiff, zlib, jpeg, ssh etc..  precompiled and
> installed!  Getting even a comercial compiler installed with all these
> optional packages would take a modest amount of effort.
> 
> So my question is:  What does it take to add an optional package to
> cygwin?
> 
> Is this up to an individual or is there a set of instructions one can
> follow? The reason is that I would like to add the following packages that
> compile OOTB:
> 
> 	-fftw
> 	-wxwindows
> 	-gsl
> 
> I would be happy to do the work if instructed.
> 

See http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2000-11/msg00928.html for instructions to
configure your packages.  You must be willing to agree to be the package
maintainer for these packages.  Currently, packages distributed via
cygwin/latest and cygwin/contrib should not require an X server as Cygwin
doesn't yet distribute one.

David, can this be FAQed please?

Cheers,

=====
Earnie Boyd
mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com

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