On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 05:34:10PM -0400, Sheryl Canter wrote: >Ian, > >> You can get into an RPM if you have a working cygwin installation, >though. For example, with cygwin you should be able to build alien, >and you can use that to convert an RPM into a file which you can read >using tar. I expect there are other ways as well. alien can be found >here: > http://sourceforge.net/projects/alien/ > >I didn't know about alien. That is a great tip, thanks! I have downloaded >it. I did a search for RPM conversion tools, but didn't find this one. There are cygwin ports of RPM available also, FWIW. Alwo, FWIW, a few people have done the cygwin->mingw cross compiler thing. IIRC, there is a glibc patch required because glibc has a couple of files whose names differ only by case. However, these days, cygwin has the ability to deal with that with the 'mount -o managed' option which allows you to mount an empty directory and populate it with files that differ by case or which contain non-windows friendly characters like ':' or create filenames like 'aux', or 'com1'. cgf
