From: Vince Rice <vrice@solidrocksystems.com>
To: The Cygwin Mailing List <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: Moving forward from cygwinports
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2017 18:06:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8579B851-728D-49BB-8BA9-53D592C808E3@solidrocksystems.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <05817731-A39C-4240-A4BC-DD3DF27D9E1B@solidrocksystems.com>
>> On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 12:08 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
>>> On 2017-04-04 05:38, Chris Davies wrote:
>>>>
>>>> As an example, my use case is Perl-DBD-Sybase from about three weeks
>>>> ago, which works beautifully but is not in the main repository. Short of
>>>> moving to a Linux-based platform I'm now not sure how to proceed. Could
>>>> someone enlighten me, please?
>>>
>>>
>>> You could try building it yourself:
>>>
>>> https://github.com/cygwinports-extras/perl-DBD-Sybase
>>>
>>> You'll need cygport, perl, and libsybdb-devel. If it weren't for that
>>> patch, you could also just install it from cpan.
>>
>> On Apr 4, 2017, at 12:58 PM, Wayne Barron wrote:
>>
>> @Chris,
>> I know that Cygwin and Cygport are not the same.
>> I was asking if you could perhaps share information on how to properly
>> install Cygport.
>>
>> I downloaded it from here.
>> https://github.com/cygwinports/cygport
>>
>> In the Cygwin, it had a Windows 32 or 64-bit installer.
>> This does not come with such.
First, please don't https://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU.
Second, https://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR.
You didn't have to download it from anywhere. Cygport is a Cygwin package, it can/should be installed from Cygwin's setup.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-04-04 18:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-04 10:39 Chris Davies
2017-04-04 12:20 ` Wayne Barron
2017-04-04 14:35 ` Chris Davies
2017-04-04 16:08 ` Yaakov Selkowitz
2017-04-04 17:59 ` Wayne Barron
[not found] ` <05817731-A39C-4240-A4BC-DD3DF27D9E1B@solidrocksystems.com>
2017-04-04 18:06 ` Vince Rice [this message]
2017-04-04 18:47 ` Wayne Barron
2017-04-04 18:59 ` Brian Inglis
2017-04-04 19:21 ` Wayne Barron
2017-04-04 19:33 ` Marco Atzeri
2017-04-04 19:38 ` Wayne Barron
2017-04-04 18:56 ` Brian Inglis
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