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Re: documentation on building the cygwin dll
On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Carlo Florendo wrote:
> From: "Elfyn McBratney"
>
> > > I got the latest sources from CVS (a whopping 30MB+ source). Of course, this created a ./src directory.
> > >
> > > I then created a ./obj directory (in the same level as ./src) and went inside it. I also created a /install directory as
> mentioned
> > > in
> > > the FAQ.
> > >
> > > Here is a transcript of what I did (after logging in to cvs).
> > >
> > >
> > > $ mkdir /install
> > > $ cvs checkout winsup
> > > $ mkdir obj
> > > $ cd obj
> > > $ ../src/configure --prefix=/install -v > configure.log 2>&1
> > > $ make
> >
> > And after a `make install' in the build directory you will have your DLL
> > (assumming that the build didn't fail).
>
> I didn't do a `make install' since `make' exited with errors. (Hmmm, but why didn't I do it anyway, gosh... stupid me). I assumed
> that when make exited with an error, the build failed.
Right
> However, I just tried what you said (running `make install') and it started building (to my great surprise). I was expecting the
> cygwin dll to be built but when I checked the dlls that were built,
> only /install/i686-pc-cygwin/bin/mingwm10.dll was built.
>
> Anything else I'm missing?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Carlo
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