> The latest snapshot as in the subject fails to compile. The error > occures when the make commands tries to execute in winsup/w32api, > which is empty. The snapshot itself does contain a win32 directory > but its empty. I check the source of the stock 1.3.9-1 and it doesn't > have any files in the w32api directory. This makes me think that this > question maybe have an answer and the post may be considred RTFM or > stupid or something else :) Still I'd like to ask it - are there > any other steps that should be done to build the cygwin dll except > downloading the snapshot and configuring in separate dir ? Download the sources to w32api and make a symlink. IIRC the currently released w32api package has a missing #define which needs to go in winnt.h: #define INVALID_FILE_ATTRIBUTES (-1) I believe this has been in CVS for a while and therefore will show up in the next package (if it has not already).
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