Hi list, I just published a docker image with all the necessary build dependencies (except for dumper.exe) for building cygwin. We are using it to compile our WinDRBD driver and with a few additional packages it was possible to compile cygwin (newlib-cygwin) as well.
This is how to obtain it: docker pull quay.io/johannesthoma/windrbd-devenv-cygwin To build the container yourself you can use the make docker-cygwin command of the WinDRBD driver (https://github.com/LINBIT/WinDRBD) (you have to use the windrbd-1.2 branch). Since this takes an hour to complete (2 C-compilers being built) I recommend to use the quay.io image. There is one thing about the container which is a little bit how do I say - not so clean - we import the cygwin-gcc compiler from Fedora 38 packages in a Ubuntu 22.04 - from https://download.copr.fedorainfracloud.org/results/yselkowitz/cygwin/ I don't know if yselkowitz is on the cygwin list but it would be helpful to have maybe a script to build those packages, so if someone could share some hints how to build the cygwin compilers that would be of great help. In case you are not familiar with docker here's what I use: docker tag quay.io/johannesthoma/windrbd-devenv-cygwin windrbd-devenv-cygwin docker run -v /home/johannes/cygwin-sources-new:/cygwin-sources --name build-cygwin-new -d windrbd-devenv-cygwin tail -f /dev/null docker exec -it build-cygwin-new bash From there everything in newlib-cygwin (except for dumper so configure winsup with --disable-dumper) should be buildable. If you find this container useful, have questions or feature requests or find bugs or things not working as expected, please let me know. Best regards, - Johannes -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
