Hamish MB writes: > 3: I needed these in order to build without the patches. I'm not sure > why, but these aren't needed when the patches are used. This is > documented at https://forums.wxwidgets.org/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=46091
It's quite obvious that nobody in that thread has any first-hand experience with Cygwin and yet they give (mostly bogus as a result of that) advice. As with many other projects, upstream often doesn't know about Cygwin at all, makes assumptions that are outdated by decades or just plain guesses wrong. If the project happens to have a native Windows port, these wrong assumptions are often more widespread, unfortunately. They can be in the configury, the Makefiles or the sources themselves, so getting things right can take a while. If you need to update a package you're off to a way better start if you take the existing cygport for the previous version and then figure out what changes need to apply in top of that; rather than starting from scratch. If you are unsure what a patch does, ask the current maintainer (on this list) rather than just yanking it. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ Factory and User Sound Singles for Waldorf Blofeld: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#WaldorfSounds
