From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 32268 invoked by alias); 16 Aug 2014 12:59:04 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 32258 invoked by uid 89); 16 Aug 2014 12:59:03 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: web01.jbserver.net Received: from web01.jbserver.net (HELO web01.jbserver.net) (37.72.100.182) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Sat, 16 Aug 2014 12:59:01 +0000 Received: from 18-132-17-190.fibertel.com.ar ([190.17.132.18] helo=[192.168.3.107]) by web01.jbserver.net with esmtpsa (TLSv1.2:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.83) (envelope-from ) id 1XIdZR-0003Cv-NL; Sat, 16 Aug 2014 14:58:57 +0200 Message-ID: <53EF5329.7060904@si6networks.com> Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 12:59:00 -0000 From: Fernando Gont User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Running a cygwin application on Windows References: <53ED67D3.2020405@si6networks.com> <20140816104729.GU28562@calimero.vinschen.de> In-Reply-To: <20140816104729.GU28562@calimero.vinschen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2014-08/txt/msg00313.txt.bz2 Hi, Corinna, Thanks so much for your prompt response! Comments in-line... On 08/16/2014 06:47 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Aug 14 21:52, Fernando Gont wrote: >> Folks, >> >> I'm the main developer of an open source project >> , and was meaning >> to port our project to Windows. >> >> My idea was to use cygwin, since I'm not much of a Windows >> programmer. Is there any way to produce and ship an exe with the >> relevant libraries? > > What about just creating a Cygwin package and including and > maintaining it as part of the Cygwin distro? I have just started reading to corresponding documentation to produce a Cygwin package of my toolkit (be prepared for possible rather clueless questions, since this would be my first Cygwin package). That said, I'd also like to produce some sort of standalone binary for folks that may just want to quickly run the toolkit from the Windows command line... > This way, you can simply point users to the Cygwin distro, never > have to care for keeping third-party libs up-to-date, never have to > provide sources for third party libs on your site, never have to > look into library collisions on user systems, and in general, just > have to point users to the Cygwin distro to fetch your package. > > As an additional benefit, you get a lot more help porting your > package on the cygwin and cygwin-apps mailing lists. In some cases > we're also going as far as patching Cygwin itself for the benefit > of a package :) I'll do both. For instance, I've tried to provide packages (or have them produced one way or another) for as many platforms as possible. ("Turnabout is fair play" some friend once said...) Thanks! Best regards, -- Fernando Gont SI6 Networks e-mail: fgont@si6networks.com PGP Fingerprint: 6666 31C6 D484 63B2 8FB1 E3C4 AE25 0D55 1D4E 7492 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple