GCL and dependencies on cygwin

Jon Turney jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk
Sun May 18 12:56:46 GMT 2025


On 04/04/2025 19:32, Camm Maguire via Cygwin-apps wrote:
[...]
>>
>> I also have a few comments on your cygport file, so maybe you could
>> post it here for review.
>>
> 
> Yes it is quite preliminary.  One question -- how do you declare binary
> package dependencies that are not determined automatically -- i.e. GCL
> is useless without gcc or another C compiler.

See https://cygwin.github.io/cygport/pkg_pkg_cygpart.html#PKG_REQUIRES

so something like:

gcl_REQUIRES="gcc-core"

adds gcc to the list of dependencies for the package gcl.



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