On Thu, 27 May 2004, Baurjan Ismagulov wrote:
Hello, Michael!
On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 04:53:17PM -0400, Michael Hale wrote:
Is it possible to recompile a subset of the cygwin binaries to depend
on cygwin1.dll renamed to something like build_cygwin1.dll? How
would
I go about doing this?
Some comments:
This is a quite often-discussed topic, but there is not much info in
the
archives. All I could understand is:
* It isn't possible with the current cygwin.
It is possible, but non-trivial. Take a look at how the Cygwin
testsuite
runs. However, you shouldn't do this unless you know exactly what
you're
doing.
* One needs at least to rename the library and use different registry
entries and shared memory areas in different versions; perhaps
something else.
That's pretty much it, IIRC. You can even share the mounts/registry
entries.
* Max Bowsher has a working version, albeit of an older cygwin. He
wanted to patch the latest version himself, but I'm eager to see
even
the old patch, it would be a great starting point without
duplicating
the effort. Max, ple-e-ase :) ?
One way to have Cygwin automatically modify the shared memory area
name is
to compile it with debugging (by passing the --enable-debugging flag to
configure). The trick here is that once you have such a cygwin1.dll,
you'll have to spawn the process that uses it via Windows mechanisms,
rather than Cygwin's own fork. Again, take a look at the testsuite
scripts, in particular the "cygrun.c" file, or just run it from a
shortcut or the cmd console.
I'm also interested in this kind of setup, but unfortunately, I
haven't
got much time for this. If you are going to work on this, I could also
contribute some bits.
With kind regards,
Baurjan.
I repeat: you really should know what you're doing before you attempt
this. I can't emphasize this enough. But it *is* possible.
To the OP: why not simply have an internal Cygwin mirror and make sure
everyone has the same version of Cygwin on their machine?
Igor
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