Static build under Cygwin?

Peter Stuge stuge-openssh-unix-dev at cdy.org
Fri Apr 6 02:56:06 EST 2007


On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 11:08:36AM -0400, Chris Rapier wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone has statically built OpenSSH under
> cygwin?
> Mostly I'm just trying to avoid the need to require a specific user
> to install cygwin in order to use the client. Does it involve
> mingw?

Yes, it would, but MinGW != Cygwin and I don't think OpenSSH likes it
very much in Win32 land.

Cygwin is a POSIX compatibility layer for Win32.

MinGW is gcc+friends for Win32 with little or no built-in
compatibility.


//Peter


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