documentation on building the cygwin dll

[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..

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.

> 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.

Elfyn

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