Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2005 19:58:16 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: where is setup.exe source? Message-ID: <20051107005816.GB8754@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <436E6A0C.5E565962@dessent.net> <436E7EFB.A8BA38F9@dessent.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <436E7EFB.A8BA38F9@dessent.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 02:08:59PM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote: >Carl Karsten wrote: > >> I meant what compiler is used. I am used to things like InnoSetup, so I was >> expecting something of that nature. > >It's built with gcc, just like Cygwin itself and every Cygwin package. >It is however a mingw application, and does not depend on cygwin1.dll >for obvious reasons. The build infratructure is the standard autoconf + >automake environemnt. Instructions for building are in the README file. > >> ftp://mirror.calvin.edu/cygwin;mirror.calvin.edu;North America;Michigan >> >> Why isn't the "North America;Michigan" part displayed? > >I presume because it would take up more screen real-estate (setup used >to be constricted to a very small window before it was resizeable) and >because no one has yet coded it to do that. i.e., WJM. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/