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Re: Moving forward from cygwinports
>> On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 12:08 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> On Apr 4, 2017, at 12:58 PM, Wayne Barron wrote:
>>
>> @Chris,
>> I know that Cygwin and Cygport are not the same.
>> I was asking if you could perhaps share information on how to properly
>> install Cygport.
>>
>> I downloaded it from here.
>> https://github.com/cygwinports/cygport
>>
>> In the Cygwin, it had a Windows 32 or 64-bit installer.
>> This does not come with such.
First, please don't https://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU.
Second, https://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR.
You didn't have to download it from anywhere. Cygport is a Cygwin package, it can/should be installed from Cygwin's setup.
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