Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 04:28:44 -0600
From: Yaakov (Cygwin/X) <yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Howto compile package
Message-ID: <20130218042844.41afbdba@YAAKOV04>
In-Reply-To: <kfr7ci$8uv$1@ger.gmane.org>
References: <kfr7ci$8uv$1@ger.gmane.org>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm
Precedence: bulk
Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com

On Sun, 17 Feb 2013 19:26:29 +0100, Matthias Meyer wrote:
> I would like to patch and compile rsync.

A .cygport is available here:

http://cygwin-ports.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=cygwin-ports/rsync

> I'll prefer to cross compile from linux (debian) to cygwin.
> Is that possible? I didn't find any (actual) documentation about this.

There is a linux-to-cygwin cross-compile toolchain for current versions
of Fedora and EL6; I'm not sure if any of those binaries would work on
Debian, but you could try rebuilding the source RPMs if the necessary
tools are available there.


Yaakov

--
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple