X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=w50B7PtiTJtaDRTPcPdaNB1xSSgJKGil9kP1uyYkwE4 UsKfkHbvOFTGU19+gT7SwOuJ7l9VLSNgRwEe5idc3PlTuhn0pc8daj1Tw9L4DjoY YG39fuCROKdkdWqDMGCpCheRO5L2m8leasBbNEFm77dljn2GLWb0NDbZjYzHgrx4 = DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=ICRDqTZMOIb0epT9rO0OBm9+p0c=; b=C1vvMDts8ykuMkn8Q 77cLh6pHn3BTiNqOQtu7YcgWIZOW/JadidYzuk+8wBgr0Y1hjrdu+vaYRNmDU2DQ inndJ6yxmLrkU/bkc77QiSIV9t5Xt9tFX3WFVfQ2b/hsEDcBnsHAhpHxveuDVlOt ShLyXMSyoTj6mX4XpSgMDaTyMg= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: web01.jbserver.net Message-ID: <53EF5329.7060904@si6networks.com> Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 08:48:41 -0400 From: Fernando Gont User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Running a cygwin application on Windows References: <53ED67D3 DOT 2020405 AT si6networks DOT com> <20140816104729 DOT GU28562 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> In-Reply-To: <20140816104729.GU28562@calimero.vinschen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Hi, Corinna, Thanks so much for your prompt response! Comments in-line... On 08/16/2014 06:47 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Aug 14 21:52, Fernando Gont wrote: >> Folks, >> >> I'm the main developer of an open source project >> , and was meaning >> to port our project to Windows. >> >> My idea was to use cygwin, since I'm not much of a Windows >> programmer. Is there any way to produce and ship an exe with the >> relevant libraries? > > What about just creating a Cygwin package and including and > maintaining it as part of the Cygwin distro? I have just started reading to corresponding documentation to produce a Cygwin package of my toolkit (be prepared for possible rather clueless questions, since this would be my first Cygwin package). That said, I'd also like to produce some sort of standalone binary for folks that may just want to quickly run the toolkit from the Windows command line... > This way, you can simply point users to the Cygwin distro, never > have to care for keeping third-party libs up-to-date, never have to > provide sources for third party libs on your site, never have to > look into library collisions on user systems, and in general, just > have to point users to the Cygwin distro to fetch your package. > > As an additional benefit, you get a lot more help porting your > package on the cygwin and cygwin-apps mailing lists. In some cases > we're also going as far as patching Cygwin itself for the benefit > of a package :) I'll do both. For instance, I've tried to provide packages (or have them produced one way or another) for as many platforms as possible. ("Turnabout is fair play" some friend once said...) Thanks! Best regards, -- Fernando Gont SI6 Networks e-mail: fgont AT si6networks DOT com PGP Fingerprint: 6666 31C6 D484 63B2 8FB1 E3C4 AE25 0D55 1D4E 7492 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple