Pavel, 2002-01-11 18:39:43, du schriebst:
> Well, I just want to know - what's the thing that prevented the db > package from being ported so long ? Is it extremly difficulk or it's > just a matter of no one having the time/interest of doing it ? > I may be interested in maintaing this package but what some details > first :) Great, there are existing ports to start with, or start with 4.x series, I have it up and running here with shared libs, no problems so far (but I use only binmode mounts on NT). The problems are with textmode mounts, FAT filesystems which needs investigation and a lots of testing. db-4.0 builds OOB with static libs and it is no issue to create a .dll from a shared lib with: gcc -shared -o cyg${module}.dll -Wl,--out-implib=lib${module}.dll.a -Wl,--export-all-symbols -Wl,--enable-auto-import -Wl,--whole-archive $old_lib -Wl,--no-whole-archive ${dependency_libs} I use it every day. Instead of -Wl,--whole-archive $old_lib you can also take the single objects list to build a .dll. What will last a 'little' longer is testing and debugging and patching to get it run on Win98 with the FAT fs and to make it useable on textmode mounts. Take a look at an existing port and what was done there: ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/pc/gnuwin32/cygwin/porters/Wilson_Charles_S/michael-ring/ Gerrit -- =^..^= -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/