Hosting the Debian/kCygwin port?
Sjors Gielen
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Wed Jan 21 14:17:00 GMT 2009
Tzafrir Cohen schreef:
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 12:49:29AM +0100, Sjors Gielen wrote:
>> Hey lists,
>>
>> I'm working on a project porting the Debian tools to Cygwin. Currently,
>> my plan is to:
>> - Provide some required patches to the Cygwin team, for example to allow
>> a file in use to be removed or modified, since this is required for dpkg
>> - Re-compile all packages and patches currently available for Cygwin
>> into a Debian .deb
>> - Provide either a way to bootstrap Debian onto an existing Cygwin
>> installation, or provide installers for a pure Debian/kCygwin
>> installation.
>
> Which libc do you intend to use?
>
> Cygwin uses newc, IIRC, but I can't find it packaged in Debian so far.
>
As far as I understand it now, newlib is packed along with Cygwin itself
in cygwin1.dll. I'm thinking of a package libcygwin1, which will contain
this (and maybe other) dlls. This package will just be created in the
process of getting Debian to work on Cygwin :)
Sjors
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