Static build under Cygwin?

Chris Rapier rapier at psc.edu
Fri Apr 6 02:29:14 EST 2007



Peter Stuge wrote:
> 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.

So basically it would require voodoo. How many goats?
;)


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