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 Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 16:12:52 +0100 From: "Gerrit P. Haase" Reply-To: "Gerrit P. Haase" Organization: Esse keine toten Tiere X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <16221209156.20031104161252@familiehaase.de> To: Heath Raftery CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Compiled several libraries not in setup In-Reply-To: <3FA5D7B8.6080407@myrealbox.com> References: <3FA5D7B8.6080407@myrealbox.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Hello Heath, Monday, November 3, 2003, 5:21:12 AM, you wrote: > After a non-trivial amount of mucking around, I've managed to compile > several libraries in cygwin, which weren't in the Setup program. I > installed them to compile centericq, but I'm sure they have other uses > too. I think the list is: > libgcrypt > libgcrypt-pthread > libgnutls > libgnutls-extra > libgpg-error > liblzo > libopencdk > libtasn1 > libtiff > libz libtiff and libz are available, though the names are tiff and zlib for the Cygwin packages. > It would take me some time to go through again and document and test the > changes I had to make to the source, configure and install scripts, so I > wonder if it would be of use to the cygwin community to do so. If it > saves someone else the time it took me the first time, I think it would > be worthwhile. What is the general procedure here? Please see: http://cygwin.com/setup.html for a detailed guide how to become a package maintainer. -- Best regards, Gerrit -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/