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Re: where is setup.exe source?


On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 02:08:59PM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote:
>Carl Karsten wrote:
>
>> I meant what compiler is used.  I am used to things like InnoSetup, so I was
>> expecting something of that nature.
>
>It's built with gcc, just like Cygwin itself and every Cygwin package. 
>It is however a mingw application, and does not depend on cygwin1.dll
>for obvious reasons.  The build infratructure is the standard autoconf +
>automake environemnt.  Instructions for building are in the README file.
>
>> ftp://mirror.calvin.edu/cygwin;mirror.calvin.edu;North America;Michigan
>> 
>> Why isn't the "North America;Michigan" part displayed?
>
>I presume because it would take up more screen real-estate (setup used
>to be constricted to a very small window before it was resizeable) and
>because no one has yet coded it to do that.

i.e., WJM.

cgf

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