From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10675 invoked by alias); 5 Feb 2003 14:14:24 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 10666 invoked from network); 5 Feb 2003 14:14:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO thebrain.conmicro.cx) (206.146.76.206) by 172.16.49.205 with SMTP; 5 Feb 2003 14:14:24 -0000 Received: by thebrain.conmicro.cx (Postfix, from userid 500) id 34F263C067; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 08:14:23 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 14:14:00 -0000 From: Jay Maynard To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Packaging software built with cygwin Message-ID: <20030205081423.A8484@thebrain.conmicro.cx> References: <20030204194653.A5738@thebrain.conmicro.cx> <20030204204803.A6191@thebrain.conmicro.cx> <20030205033246.GA4959@redhat.com> <3E411421.3030301@nigels.com> <20030205141202.GB12601@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20030205141202.GB12601@redhat.com>; from cgf@redhat.com on Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 09:12:02AM -0500 X-SW-Source: 2003-02/txt/msg00311.txt.bz2 On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 09:12:02AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 12:39:45AM +1100, Nigel Stewart & Fiona Smith wrote: > >>However, just in case you need to hear it, it is true that you have to > >>provide the sources for the cygwin DLL if you want to distribute it. > >There is always the MingW option via -mno-cygwin. (Perhaps stating the > >obvious, but just in case...) > >http://www.mingw.org/ > I assume that the software in question actually uses the UNIX api. Mingw has > only a very small subset of this available. Hercules uses large parts of the Linux API. (It was originally developed on Linux; while it'll run on most Unix systems, there are some functions, most notably SCSI tape support, that only work on Linux.) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/