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RE: Building applications from source to support cygwin


On 12 January 2007 03:06, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:

> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 07:48:02PM -0500, Sparky Sparky wrote:
>>> I know this is a newbie question, but I can't find it in the
>>> documentation. How (if?) do you compile a standard x86 source to
>>> support cygwin?
>> 
>> How would you build the application on linux?  Same way, i.e., something
>> like: 
>> 
>> gcc -o foo foo.c
> 
> 
> Wrong!  You type "make".
> 
> Phsh, newbies. ;-)
> 

Wrong!  You type "./configure", then you type "make".

Phsh, oldbies!  

[ hmm.. autoconf.. automake... aclocal... we could probably take this back
waay too far :) ]

    cheers,
      DaveK
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