Building setup.exe

Max Bowsher maxb@ukf.net
Wed Aug 20 19:47:00 GMT 2003


Mark Blackburn wrote:
> Where are the instructions for building setup? Are they in a FAQ
> somewhere or in the source tree? For that matter how do you figure out
> to get the source from cvs?
> 
> I already know some of these answers ie:
> cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@sources.redhat.com:/cvs/cygwin-apps co setup
> cd setup
> ./bootstrap.sh
> cd ..
> mkdir build
> cd build
> ../setup/configure <I DONT KNOW WHAT GOES HERE>
> make
> 
> I figured this much out by stumbling around blindly. I was wondering if
> there was an easy to find reference on cygwin.com somewhere that I can
> use when I forget some of this stuff.

http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin-apps/setup.html

Max.



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