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Re: Setup.exe and window resizing
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at syncretize dot net>
- To: Martin Röhrig <Martin dot Roehrig at gmx dot de>,<cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 08:31:53 +1000
- Subject: Re: Setup.exe and window resizing
- References: <NEBBKENGBEADPBIEADBFCELPDDAA.Martin.Roehrig@gmx.de>
----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Röhrig" <Martin.Roehrig@gmx.de>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 12:22 AM
Subject: RE: Setup.exe and window resizing
> Admittedly it's very annoying dealing with that tiny window for selecing
the packages.
> As a first approach, I have simply patched the res.rc file of the source
distribution and rebuild setup.exe.
> I append a diff against revision 2.249.2.4 at the end of this mail. Feel
free to use it (at your own risk ;-).
Unfortunately we still need to look after users with 640x480 screens. (Which
is why resizing is the goal).
> By the way, what is the correct way to build setup.exe?
> I used:
> $ export CFLAGS=-mno-cygwin
> $ export CPPFLAGS=-mno-cygwin
> $ export CXXFLAGS=-mno-cygwin
> $ configure --disable-shared
> $ make
The build recipe used to build releases is on
http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin-apps/setup.html.
> The result is a setup.exe without dependency from cygwin1.dll, but much
larger than that found at redhat.com.
> What is wrong?
I run upx (available via setup.exe) over the resulting .exe to make it
smaller.
Rob
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