From: Collin Funk Date: Thu, 2 May 2024 21:22:14 +0000 (-0700) Subject: DEPENDENCIES: Add Cygwin as supported platform. X-Git-Url: https://gitweb.git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0f6c664fa65ba617923e198dc63c30a4fbbf2d2c;p=gnulib.git DEPENDENCIES: Add Cygwin as supported platform. * DEPENDENCIES: Mention Cygwin as a supported platform for building Windows binaries. --- diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 8192b43aa7..d59f8d5c7e 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +2024-05-02 Collin Funk + + DEPENDENCIES: Add Cygwin as supported platform. + * DEPENDENCIES: Mention Cygwin as a supported platform for building + Windows binaries. + 2024-05-02 Bruno Haible doc: Add appendix about Gnulib history. diff --git a/DEPENDENCIES b/DEPENDENCIES index b700c05bc6..893daef0a7 100644 --- a/DEPENDENCIES +++ b/DEPENDENCIES @@ -197,3 +197,20 @@ at any time. https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/ + Download: https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/ + + +Prerequisites needed on specific platforms +========================================== + +Prerequisites on Windows +------------------------ + +* Cygwin + + Required. + Provides a POSIX-like environment and binary packages necessary to + build and run software. Native Windows binaries can be built with + a packaged mingw tool chain. This method is preferred over MSYS2. + + Homepage: + https://cygwin.com/ + + Download: + https://cygwin.com/install.html