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Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 09:12:02 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Packaging software built with cygwin
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On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 12:39:45AM +1100, Nigel Stewart & Fiona Smith wrote:
>>However, just in case you need to hear it, it is true that you have to
>>provide the sources for the cygwin DLL if you want to distribute it.
>
>There is always the MingW option via -mno-cygwin.  (Perhaps stating the
>obvious, but just in case...)
>
>http://www.mingw.org/

I assume that the software in question actually uses the UNIX api.  Mingw has
only a very small subset of this available.

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