Re: First time packager questions

[Brian Dessent <brian at dessent dot net>]

Ralph Hempel wrote:

> 1. Should my build make just a .dll file to link against, or should
>     I also provide a .a library for static linking?

You need to provide an import library for the DLL regardless of whether
you decide to also support a static version of the library.

"Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)" wrote:

> > 3. I'm currently using Cygwin 1.7 and gcc-4 to build and test
> >    this out, but should I do it for 1.5 as well?
> 
> gcc-4.3 is not yet finalized; it should not be used for building
> packages going into the distro.

And obviously it should go without saying that you can't upload packages
built using 1.7 to the main distro either.

Brian