Re: Cygwin playbook?

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Sep 7, 2006, 06:59 UTC
Message-ID: <7v7j0g40xh.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <46a038f90609062159v3858a771t38355ed60867ccfc@mail.gmail.com>

"Martin Langhoff" <martin.langhoff@gmail.com> writes:

> - What cygwin packages are needed?

I am not in front of Windows machine so I need to check later if nobody beats me to this, but essentially it is the same as on sane Unix systems. Cygwin folks did a good job providing necessary libraries readily available from their Setup.exe.

> - Need to fudge makefile?

No; not even autoconf was needed and it installed out of the box for me (w2k).

> - How do I install for personal use?

make install would install under whereever you call ~/bin in Cygwin environment, and that is how I have mine.

> - How do I install in /usr/local?

I do not think of a reason why "make prefix=/usr/local" would not work but I haven't tried it myself so don't quote me on this.

> - Anything else I should know?

You would probably have great pain if on vfat. It appears to work Ok on NTFS. It appears to be quite slow, judging from the way it runs our standard test suite.