Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Message-ID: <3BCE0947.7030807@likai.net> Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 18:42:15 -0400 From: Li-Kai Liu User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.5) Gecko/20011011 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: cygwinb19 and mysql-win32 References: <20011017181241 DOT B5656 AT redhat DOT com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit yeah, i see cygwinb19.dll in the /lib of mysql win32 distribution as well. i don't think they really intended to use cygwin though. their win32 build should run fine without cygwin. i suspect they've only included the library for some weird sense of completeness but it's totally non-essential. suppose someone did compile a cygwin mysql client, but they should have cygwin as well, so it doesn't make sense to have cygwinb19.dll distributed with mysql win32 binary at all. i personally just ignored it. you might contact the mysql team to see what they have to say about this ... note in their win32 download page: http://www.mysql.com/downloads/os-win32.html they do have a few cygwin binaries listed. i have not checked the source for mysql, but i don't think they're distributing source for cygwin. they might not even have compiled their own cygwin at all. it might be a legacy leftover file that nobody remembers where it is from and why it is there. liulk Christopher Faylor wrote: >>And their manuals only reference is that to use the mysqlc (mysql client >>linked to cygwin) one must copy the cygwin b19.dll to the windows system >>directory. >> >>Oh, and there is no source for cygwinb19.dll in the binary distribution, >>nor any specific notice that cygwinb19.dll as included has it's source >>available in their source tarball. (there is the usual COPYING file for >>the whole thing though). >> >>Hmmmm. AAARRRRGGGGHHH. Mysql isn't exactly a low profile open-source >>project. I haven't downloaded their 15 MB .zip source file to check >>whether the cygwin dll source is included or not - which is why I've >>mailed here in case someone else has and can confirm or deny. Their unix >>source file is ~11Mb, and I suspect that the 4Mb difference is more than >>just tar.gz getting better compression. >> >>So there are two issues here: >>1) Why are they distributing b19?!?!?!??! >>2) Are they in fact distributing the source. >> > >I'd be interested in getting clarification on this, too. > >cgf > >-- >Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple >Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html >Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html >FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/