Vladimir Mihai Pacuraru wrote:
[ ... ]
When I first had to build RPMs I tried to do it with Cygwin as I've
already had the environment in place, but I'm afraid I never could
build anything else besides an RPM containing a zero-sized file. So in
the end I had to build RPMs on Linux. So personally I guess that
building RPMs on Windows OUTSIDE of Cygwin might be even more
complicated, if not impossible.
As I understand it, he's not talking about building the actual rpms on
Windows, though, just to build the rpm support code into a windows
application that will read rpm files already generated elsewhere.
Anyhow, maybe you are all aware of it already, but in many cases you may
build a "more native" (than the Cygwin variant) version of GNU-style
freeware packages by using the MinGW library. See http://www.mingw.org/.
- Toralf
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