[Box Backup-dev] boxbackup-0.09_plus2 under Cygwin

Ben Summers boxbackup-dev at fluffy.co.uk
Tue Feb 7 20:50:02 GMT 2006


On 7 Feb 2006, at 20:36, Chris Wilson wrote:

> Hi Gary,
>
>>> Cygwin is NOT required to build - you can use MSVC. And regexes are
>>> supported if you have the libraries - it's just that I don't have  
>>> them
>>> installed for native builds yet (it's not easy).
>>
>> Ok, then I am at a loss here - where does th Cygwin/MinGW comes  
>> into pleay in that case? I will try to build Win32 native using  
>> VS2K5, if you let me know which distribution is the way to go. Is  
>> anyone else working on VS2K5?
>
> There are TWO ways to create a native build: cygwin+mingw, and perl 
> +msvc. For the latter, just run win32.bat, open the solution (in  
> infrastructure/msvc/2005) and compile. But it doesn't have regex  
> support either (at the moment). You will probably need to download  
> something like pcre and link it into the project.

I used pcre on Win32 recently, and it was very easy to use.

>
>>> Please could you help to fix Cygwin? I'll check in my updated  
>>> tree to Subversion this evening, which at least allows it to build.
>>
>> If I can build a native Win32 version, then a native Cygwin  
>> version is somewhat of a redundancy, there, but I can help you  
>> build/test, sure.
>
> I have no idea if I can get regex support working in time for this  
> release, so Cygwin support might still be worth having.

How long? Sounds like it's worth having.

Ben






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