Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Path: not-for-mail From: Elmar Haneke Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin Subject: Re: Porting software HOWTO Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 18:21:11 +0100 Lines: 18 Message-ID: <3CC44687.70402@haneke.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: pd9e1453d.dip.t-dialin.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1019496078 19711 217.225.69.61 (22 Apr 2002 17:21:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 17:21:18 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020417 X-Accept-Language: de,en wolfgang--onsys.leideck@basf-ag.de wrote: > is there any HOWTO documentation for porting software. I'm in the need to > port the new tcl/tk 8.4 to cygwin, but i don't know how. I would suggest to have a look at the 8.0 port currently available. Based on this you can analyze which changes were required for 8.0 - this should be a good starting point to adopt 8.4. In some cases you might be more lucky: Many software packages are prepared to compile using cygwin - running configure is sufficient in this case. Elmar -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/