From: Aaron Schneider <notstop2@users.sourceforge.net>
To: "cygwin@cygwin.com" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: RE: How to add a package to Cygwin from an external folder?
Date: Sun, 06 Oct 2013 19:25:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DUB122-W1726FE24B13D9D405AFD1CE120@phx.gbl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DUB121-W348E776734637FEEAB130DA4120@phx.gbl>
> I'm new on Cygwin environment and I'm wondering if it's possible to "link" a package that's already stored on my hard-drive, but it's out from the default Cygwin folder. I'll be more precise:
> My Cygwin environment is in C:\dev\cygwin, I need to manually install a particular version of a package that's not available in the default remote repository, for example libgimp2.0-dev (version 2.6.0)
>
> But I've already got it from the net! I've put it in C:\dev\gimp-dev (NOTE: I'm trying to give some "modularity" to my Cygwin installation, that's the reason why I didn't put it directly inside Cygwin folder, I would like to replace gimp-dev with a newer version whenever I want).
>
> So, now I have a manually downloaded package in a folder that's OUTSIDE the Cygwin environment. In this situation, when I want to compile something using that package, gcc returns a linker error because (according to Cygwin) the package libgimp2.0-dev doesn't exist.
>
> How can I make it visible to Cygwin without cut & paste it inside C:\dev\cygwin? Should I add some environment variable? Thank you!
>
> P.S.: btw, I’ve posted the same question on Stackoverflow - sorry for the repetition - so if you want you can reply from there: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19209265/add-a-package-to-cygwin-from-an-external-folder
Do you want to actually install it or to show it to you on setup.exe but do nothing?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-06 19:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-06 13:37 Alessandro Francesconi
2013-10-06 19:25 ` Aaron Schneider [this message]
2013-10-07 16:19 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
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