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

[Ben Summers]

On 7 Feb 2006, at 21:02, Chris Wilson wrote:

> Hi Ben,
>
>> I used pcre on Win32 recently, and it was very easy to use.
>
> Which release, compiler, environment? I can't get it to build and  
> install properly from source on cygwin+mingw.

Latest release, MSVC++ 6.0, Win XP. I cheated and used the binary  
download with the dll and header file.

>
>>>  I have no idea if I can get regex support working in time for  
>>> this  release, so Cygwin support might still be worth having.
>>
>> How long? Sounds like it's worth having.
>
> Not sure, but at a guess another 8 hours to have it building and  
> installing properly in a cygwin environment, then I have to make bb  
> autoconf detect and link to it properly.

Scary. Feel like having a go?

Ben