Re: [Mingw-users] Archives and 'X'

[John E. <jo...@ti...>]

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From: "JonY"
>
> Recent versions of GTK+-2 for example supports building with MinGW, but
> not with Visual C++. Projects like OpenSSL and cURL, will works with both.
>
Okay, let me ask another question that might seem dumb to you guys.  Cygwin
comes with the equivalent of a "package manager" which can be used to
install various common Linux libraries that have been pre-built in a
"cygwin-ised" form.  So for example I could install libxml2 or libraptor or
libboost etc.

I took a look at the MinGW site but I could only find a small number of
packages relating to MinGW itself.  So what if I wanted to build a
particular open source project that relies on some standard Linux libraries
(let's say, libraptor and libxml2).  Would I be able to install libraptor
and libxml2 binaries from a repository somewhere or would I need to obtain
the source and build it using MinGW?

John