Re: A newbie question about 3rd party libraries.

2008-08-30 Thread John Emmas
Thanks for the links Yaakov. I haven't had a chance to download anything yet but they seem to be just what I was looking for. John - Original Message - From: "Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)" Sent: 28 August 2008 17:22 Subject: Re: A newbie question about 3rd party libraries

Re: A newbie question about 3rd party libraries.

2008-08-28 Thread Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Eric Blake wrote: > Usually, if something is not provided, it is because no one has > volunteered to port it yet. You are welcome to try building it yourself, ...or check if it's in Cygwin Ports already :-) http://cygwin-ports.svn.sourceforge.net/

RE: A newbie question about 3rd party libraries.

2008-08-28 Thread Dave Korn
John Emmas wrote on 28 August 2008 15:48: > - Original Message - > From: "Eric Blake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> BTW, one tradition we have on this list is please don't quote people's email addresses in the body of your email. See http://cygwin.com/acronyms#PCYMTNQREAIYR. >> [Please don't co

Re: A newbie question about 3rd party libraries.

2008-08-28 Thread John Emmas
- Original Message - From: "Eric Blake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: A newbie question about 3rd party libraries. [Please don't commandeer existing threads to start a new topic] Oops, sorry! Most mailing lists start a new topic automatically as long as y

Re: A newbie question about 3rd party libraries.

2008-08-28 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [Please don't commandeer existing threads to start a new topic] According to John Emmas on 8/28/2008 5:50 AM: > 1) Am I right in assuming that these are supplied as pre-compiled binaries > with associated header files? Yes (although often, the heade

A newbie question about 3rd party libraries.

2008-08-28 Thread John Emmas
Hi guys, I noticed that the setup package for Cygwin includes (optionally) lots of 3rd party libraries. For example, in the audio section, there are libraries for flac, libogg. libesound etc. This raises a few obvious questions:- 1) Am I right in assuming that these are supplied as pre-compile