Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/10/15/05:44:00
On Oct 14 21:32, Soeren Nils Kuklau wrote:
> 1) We've looked at `cygrunsrv', and it appears to be a convenient tool
> for setting our daemon up as an NT service. For people that do not have
> Cygwin installed, can we just distribute `cygrunsrv' as stand-alone tool
> to go inside our daemon's working directory?
That's possible, but see below.
> 2) Similarly, what about distributing `cygwin1.dll' - I am aware of the
> "dllpath hell" problem this causes; what is the preferred option here?
The preferred option is to ask the user to install a standard Cygwin
installation from cygwin.com, using the Cygwin setup tool. Then your
application can rely on the standard Cygwin install.
> 3) Cross-posting from the other mail: I also found rather little
> documentation on `cygrunsrv'. The bundled README file comprehensively
> lists possible arguments, but appears to assume that the daemon to be
> run is inside the Cygwin root directory (such as C:\Cygwin), whereas we
> believe it would make more sense to distribute our package for
> installation inside Windows' Program Files folder. Does `cygrunsrv'
> understand Windows-like paths, or can we rely on a `/cygdrive/c/Program\
> Files/'-like path structure?
cygrunsrv is made as a tool to support a Cygwin installation. cygrunsrv
itself requires the Cygwin DLL and it's designed to start Cygwin-linked
applications. If you're going to install a service which is outside the
Cygwin installation tree, you can rely on the standard Cygwin install
to request some information. E. g., the cygdrive prefix isn't hardcoded
to /cygdrive, but you can call `mount -p' in an installation script to
get the valid path prefix.
> 4) Finally, a coding issue: We use SHA1 hashing for passwords. During
> linking, we get:
>
> obj/alstring.o(.text+0x316):alstring.c: undefined reference to `_SHA1'
>
> LDFLAGS are: -lpthread -lcrypto
>
> Are we missing a specific Cygwin package?
Probably openssl-devel.
Corinna
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