Re: [Mingw-users] mingw sub-project idea

[Christopher H. <arb...@gm...>]

Greg Chicares wrote:
> On 2008-07-18 01:02Z, Christopher Harvey wrote:
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>>>> I think it would be cool to be able to 
>>>> say:
>>>> mingw-emerge libfoo
>>>>
>>>> and that would compile libfoo and all its dependencies and put them in 
>>>> the right place within mingw, all while avoiding cygwin.
>>>>         
>>> Why avoid Cygwin? Do you also avoid MSYS, which is a fork of
>>> Cygwin?
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>>>       
>> yeah I avoid both. I don't like the fact that cross platform libraries 
>> should depend on the cygwin dll, it seems to defeat the purpose and 
>> makes mingw less appealing imo.
>>     
>
> But MinGW and the Cygwin dll are mutually exclusive: that's
> the sense in which MinGW is minimalist.
>
> You can use MSYS (or Cygwin for that matter) as a *nix-like
> environment to run 'configure' and 'make' without making
> the binaries you produce depend on the Cygwin dll.
>
> Does mingwPORT address the problem you'd like to solve
I suppose, in part.
It still leaves me wanting things like automatic dependency resolving, 
and library version updates. I still don't like the feeling of 
installing libraries manually, especially when this is the only missing 
piece to a unix like source based package manager. I'll keep the list 
posted if I start out on this.