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Subject: Re: Moving forward from cygwinports
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On 2017-04-04 05:38, Chris Davies wrote:
> As an example, my use case is Perl-DBD-Sybase from about three weeks
> ago, which works beautifully but is not in the main repository. Short of
> moving to a Linux-based platform I'm now not sure how to proceed. Could
> someone enlighten me, please?

You could try building it yourself:

https://github.com/cygwinports-extras/perl-DBD-Sybase

You'll need cygport, perl, and libsybdb-devel.  If it weren't for that 
patch, you could also just install it from cpan.

-- 
Yaakov

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