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Re: Porting stuff to Cygwin
- From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>
- To: Milton Calnek <milton at calnek dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 18:46:13 -0400
- Subject: Re: Porting stuff to Cygwin
At 04:35 AM 4/15/2002, Milton Calnek wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I'm looking for pointers... I'd like to port a software package to
>cygwin. I've looked and it seems that it has not been done in the
>current versions. From what I've read, it looks like someone did/tried
>it a few years ago... I didn't read about any success stories.
>
>So... the package does not come with configure.sh but it has been designed
>to compile on several flavours of unix.
Good.
>Is there one flavour that is closer to cygwin than the others? Linux?
Cygwin follows SUS first, then Linux.
>Is there some documentation that I can read or is it all just hacking?
There's Cygwin documentation if you like at www.cygwin.com. You can look
at the user's and API guide. But no, there's no porting guide.
>I did get something to compile, but it didn't try to listen on it's port.
>I haven't tried compiling it in debug mode and running from gdb yet.
Yep, that's the next step.
Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com
838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX
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