Re: Compiling cygwin1.dll

[Michael Wild <mwild@bluewin.ch>]

On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 12:32 PM, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, Michael Wild!
>
>> In order to pinpoint an error I'm trying to compile cygwin1.dll from
>> source following the instructions here:
>
> My question is: do you actually need to rebuild it, or you just need the debug
> symbols?
>
>> https://cygwin.com/faq.html#faq.programming.building-cygwin. However,
>> when building binutils, I trip over this error:
>> https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2014-02/msg00064.html. According to
>> DJ (https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2014-02/msg00067.html),
>> "attempts to build the old binutils/gdb in CVS are going to be
>> doomed". Apparently the development of these packages is now tracked
>> in a separate git repo. So, my question is now, how do I get a working
>> build for the cygwin DLL? Do I have to replace binutils/gdb in the CVS
>> checkout with the git checkout?
>
>> How are the current snapshots built?
>
>> Thanks for any pointers in the right direction.


Dear Andrey,

I really need to build it, in order to pinpoint which commit breaks things.

Michael

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