Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 08:14:23 -0600
From: Jay Maynard <jmaynard AT conmicro DOT cx>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Packaging software built with cygwin
Message-ID: <20030205081423.A8484@thebrain.conmicro.cx>
References: <20030204194653 DOT A5738 AT thebrain DOT conmicro DOT cx> <Pine DOT GSO DOT 4 DOT 44 DOT 0302042115170 DOT 24195-100000 AT slinky DOT cs DOT nyu DOT edu> <20030204204803 DOT A6191 AT thebrain DOT conmicro DOT cx> <20030205033246 DOT GA4959 AT redhat DOT com> <3E411421 DOT 3030301 AT nigels DOT com> <20030205141202 DOT GB12601 AT redhat DOT com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i
In-Reply-To: <20030205141202.GB12601@redhat.com>; from cgf@redhat.com on Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 09:12:02AM -0500

On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 09:12:02AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 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.

Hercules uses large parts of the Linux API. (It was originally developed on
Linux; while it'll run on most Unix systems, there are some functions, most
notably SCSI tape support, that only work on Linux.)

--
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/