RE: Hypermail & WIN32

From: Crispen, Bob <Robert.Crispen_at_HSV.Boeing.com_at_hypermail-project.org>
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 07:53:10 -0500
Message-ID: <ADC9269D74C5D011A41F00805FEA40E8026647C7_at_xch-hsv-02.hv.boeing.com>

Daniel Stenberg[SMTP:Daniel.Stenberg_at_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_at_boeing.com Received on Mon 11 Oct 1999 02:53:15 PM GMT