[Box Backup-dev] boxbackup-0.09_plus2 under Cygwin

[Chris Wilson]

Hi Gary,

>> Cygwin is NOT required to build - you can use MSVC. And regexes are
>> supported if you have the libraries - it's just that I don't have them
>> installed for native builds yet (it's not easy).
>
> Ok, then I am at a loss here - where does th Cygwin/MinGW comes into 
> pleay in that case? I will try to build Win32 native using VS2K5, if you 
> let me know which distribution is the way to go. Is anyone else working 
> on VS2K5?

There are TWO ways to create a native build: cygwin+mingw, and perl+msvc. 
For the latter, just run win32.bat, open the solution (in 
infrastructure/msvc/2005) and compile. But it doesn't have regex support 
either (at the moment). You will probably need to download something like 
pcre and link it into the project.

>> Please could you help to fix Cygwin? I'll check in my updated tree to 
>> Subversion this evening, which at least allows it to build.
>
> If I can build a native Win32 version, then a native Cygwin version is 
> somewhat of a redundancy, there, but I can help you build/test, sure.

I have no idea if I can get regex support working in time for this 
release, so Cygwin support might still be worth having.

Cheers, Chris.
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