documentation on building the cygwin dll

[Carlo Florendo]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Elfyn McBratney"

> On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Carlo Florendo wrote:
>
> > > > $ mkdir /install
> > > > $ cvs checkout winsup
> > > > $ mkdir obj
> > > > $ cd obj
> > > > $ ../src/configure --prefix=/install -v > configure.log 2>&1
> > > > $ make
> > >
> > > And after a `make install' in the build directory you will have your DLL
> > > (assumming that the build didn't fail).
> >
> > I didn't do a `make install' since `make' exited with errors.  (Hmmm, but why didn't I do it anyway, gosh... stupid me). I
assumed
> > that when make exited with an error, the build failed.
>
> Ooops, hit ^X instead of ^K ...
>
> Right, you didn't mention that you got error's and when I tried the URL I got a
> connection timeout..

Ok, here's another URL then:  http://210.23.117.69/zxff/index.html


>
> Anyway, building from the source tarballs is pretty hairy, I've never built from
> a release tarball (only from CVS) so I can't help you, but the mailing list
> archives can, as this has been discussed before.

I'm building from CVS.  (The 30mb thinggie which I got from `cvs checkout').


> > However, I just tried what you said (running `make install') and it started building (to my great surprise).  I was expecting
the
> > cygwin dll to be built but when I checked the dlls that were built,
> > only  /install/i686-pc-cygwin/bin/mingwm10.dll was built.
>
> Well you'll need to search the archives, and find the hints, or wait for someone
> here who's built from a release tarball to give you some helpful instructions.





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