Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 01:00:01 +0100 From: Michael Weiser Message-Id: <199903010000.BAA07523@khazad-dum.weiser.saale-net.de> To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Subject: [FAQ autopost] gnuwin32 resource pointer gnuwin32 resource pointer $Id: gnuwin32-resource-pointer.txt,v 1.27 1999/02/21 21:08:47 michael Exp $ Introduction This document tries to list a minimal set of locations you should have checked out before asking any question on the gnuwin32 mailing list. Especially if you're searching for information about a specific problem or program you'll certainly find a point to start in the list of resources and download locations below. Of course I always try to keep it as up-to-date as possible. So feel free to mail me any suggestions or new pointers to resources. I'll visit them as soon as possible and include them into the document if they're relevant. Cygwin If you have any problem concerning Cygwin you should check out the Cygwin FAQ at http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/faq_toc.html. Please also research your problem via the Searchable Mail Archives at http://www.cygnus.com/ml/gnu-win32. Most problems have already been discussed and solved on the list and so are in the archives or even the FAQ. If you are searching for a port of a specific program or further information on a certain topic, you should check out the following related sites: Cygwin Web sites http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/ (project page) http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/faq_toc.html (Cygwin FAQ) http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/cygwin-ug-net/cygwin-ug-net.html (Cygwin User's Guide) http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/cygwin-api/cygwin-api.html (Cygwin API Reference) http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/cygwin/ (searchable mailing list archive) http://www.eGroups.com/list/gnu-win32/ (mailing list archive mirror) http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/snapshots/ (current source snapshots and Cygwin DLL binaries) http://www.cygnus.com/pubs/gnupro/ (commercial docs) http://aquarius.franken.de/docs/develop/gnuwin32/GNUWin32.txt (Michael Hirmke - package porting notes) http://dao.gsfc.nasa.gov/software/grads/ (Arlindo da Silva - X11R6.3/X11R6.4 binaries for B19/B20) http://members.xoom.com/setera/gimp/gimpw32.html (Craig Setera - the GIMP) http://www.alank.net/ (GNU-Win32 Bash Configuration) http://www.askesis.nl/AskesisPostgresIndex.html (Askesis - PostgreSQL) http://www.delorie.com/howto/ (DJ Delorie - HOWTOS) http://www.dol.ru/users/valtul/ (Valery Tulnikov - ports) http://www.freeyellow.com/members5/gw32/ (Earnie Boyd - resource pointer) http://www.i21.com/~tjump/files/ (Theodore Jump - Emacs functions and ports) http://www.io.com/~bub/rxvt.html (rxvt that doesn't need an X server) http://www.itribe.net/virtunix/ (more tools and man pages) http://www.kedemel.demon.co.uk/ (Darren - ports) http://www.lexa.ru/sos (Sergey Okhapkin - updates and ports) http://www.multione.capgemini.fr/tools/pack_ipc/ (Ludovic Lange - ipc package) http://www.qub.com/group (Perl 5 for B19) http://www.student.uni-koeln.de/cygwin/ (Cygwin Porting Project - ports) http://www.tiac.net/users/cgf/ (Christopher Faylor - ports) http://www.xemacs.freeserve.co.uk/ (Andy Piper - ports) http://www.xraylith.wisc.edu/~khan/software/gnu-win32/ (Mumit Khan - updates and ports) Especially you should visit http://www.xraylith.wisc.edu/~khan/software/gnu-win32/ if you have problems with the egcs-1.1 compiler shipped with B20.1. Mumit Khan's compilation of egcs-1.1.1 for Cygwin fixes some problems with the tools that come with the environment, especially if you're using the be used as a drop-in replacement for the supplied toolset. Sergey Okhapkin's coolview package available at http://www.lexa.ru/sos contains a Cygwin DLL that reflects the latest developments and so fixes a lot of known problems. Also it includes some special patches that aren't in the official versions. There are even more up-to-date Cygwin DLL binaries on http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/snapshots/ and ftp://go.cygnus.com/pub/sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/snapshots/ built from the latest development snapshots. Although they're not guaranteed to be stable they usually fix a lot of bugs. For those that need working access to raw tape devices there's another patched Cygwin DLL by Corinna Vinschen on ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/win32/develop/gnuwin32/cygwin32/porters/ Vinschen_Corinna/B20 named cv_cygwin1.dll.tar.gz. But please don't upgrade your system as long as you don't have any problems and exactly know what you're doing! At least the last three packages mentioned are able to cause more problems than they solve and so should only be installed if you have some you can't live with! To make it short: Never change a running system! :) Cygwin FTP archives ftp://go.cygnus.com/pub/sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin (Cygwin FTP site) ftp://go.cygnus.com/pub/sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/snapshots/ (current source snapshots and Cygwin DLL binaries) ftp://sourceware.cygnus.com/pub/cygwin/mail-archives/ (mailing list archives) ftp://dao.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/uwm_coads/ (Arlindo da Silva - X11R6.3/R6.4 binaries for B19/B20) ftp://ftp.cs.nyu.edu/pub/local/fox/cygwin32 and ftp://pipeline.ucsd.edu/pub/dsf/cygwin32 (David Fox - RPM port and packages) ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/win32/develop/gnuwin32/cygwin32/ (Michael Hirmke - German mirror and ports collection) ftp://ftp.lesstif.org/pub/hungry/lesstif/bindist/ (LessTif binaries) ftp://www.lexa.ru/pub/domestic/sos/ (Sergey Okhapkin - fixes and ports) ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/aux (Andy Piper - fixes and ports) ftp://ftp.ultra.net/pub/eugene/SRPMS (Eugene Kanter - RPM packages) ftp://ftp.xraylith.wisc.edu/pub/khan/gnu-win32/cygwin32/ (Mumit Khan - egcs binaries) Mingw32 Web sites http://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/~janjaap/mingw32/ (Jan Jaap van der Heijden - gcc binaries) http://www.freeyellow.com/members5/gw32/ (Earnie Boyd - resource pointer) http://www.fu.is.saga-u.ac.jp/~colin/gcc.html (Colin Peters - project page) http://www.is.lg.ua/~paul/devel/readline/ (win32 native readline) http://www.xraylith.wisc.edu/~khan/software/gnu-win32/ (Mumit Khan - updates and ports) Mingw32 FTP archives ftp://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/home/janjaap/mingw32 (Jan Jaap van der Heijden - gcc binaries) ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/win32/develop/gnuwin32/mingw32/ (Michael Hirmke - German mirror and ports collection) ftp://ftp.xraylith.wisc.edu/pub/khan/gnu-win32/mingw32/ (Mumit Khan - egcs binaries) FTP Upload Thanks to Michael Hirmke it is possible to host your port at the German gnuwin32 mirror ftp.franken.de. If you upload a port, Michael will create a seperate directory for your package and also include it in his package report. Please see the last lines of http://aquarius.franken.de/docs/develop/gnuwin32/GNUWin32.txt for specific upload instructions since there is some 'protocol' for designing your packages. Acknowledgements Special thanks go to Earnie Boyd who kindly gave me his signature to create a resource pointer out of it and contributed many great ideas. Also I want to thank Christopher Faylor, Michael Hirmke, Pierre Humblet, Goeffrey Noer, Timothy Prince and Sergey Okhapkin, who allowed me to include their huge knowledge on Cygwin in this document. And of course I want to thank all the developers at Cygnus and all over the net for developing such a great environment. Legal stuff I disclaim everything. :) Copyright (c) 1998/1999 by Michael Weiser, all rights reserved. # end of file -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? 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