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From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT syncretize DOT net>
To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Martin_R=F6hrig?= <Martin DOT Roehrig AT gmx DOT de>,
   <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
References: <NEBBKENGBEADPBIEADBFCELPDDAA DOT Martin DOT Roehrig AT gmx DOT de>
Subject: Re: Setup.exe and window resizing
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 08:31:53 +1000
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Röhrig" <Martin DOT Roehrig AT gmx DOT de>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 12:22 AM
Subject: RE: Setup.exe and window resizing


> Admittedly it's very annoying dealing with that tiny window for selecing
the packages.
> As a first approach, I have simply patched the res.rc file of the source
distribution and rebuild setup.exe.

> I append a diff against revision 2.249.2.4 at the end of this mail. Feel
free to use it (at your own risk ;-).

Unfortunately we still need to look after users with 640x480 screens. (Which
is why resizing is the goal).

> By the way, what is the correct way to build setup.exe?
> I used:
>  $ export CFLAGS=-mno-cygwin
>  $ export CPPFLAGS=-mno-cygwin
>  $ export CXXFLAGS=-mno-cygwin
>  $ configure --disable-shared
>  $ make

The build recipe used to build releases is on
http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin-apps/setup.html.

> The result is a setup.exe without dependency from cygwin1.dll, but much
larger than that found at redhat.com.
> What is wrong?

I run upx (available via setup.exe) over the resulting .exe to make it
smaller.

Rob


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