rsync - windows how should I compile the code any clues -Thanks !

[Naveen Athresh]

Hi Donovan,

Thank you for the insight. I will keep you posted on this.

Best Regards
Naveen A.




>From: Donovan Baarda <abo at minkirri.apana.org.au>
>To: Naveen Athresh <naveenathresh at hotmail.com>
>CC: rsync at samba.org,librsync developers list 
><librsync-devel at lists.sourceforge.net>
>Subject: Re: rsync - windows how should I compile the code any clues 
>-Thanks !
>Date: 16 Apr 2003 21:21:16 +1000
>
>On Wed, 2003-04-16 at 21:08, Naveen Athresh wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a unique issue that I am dealing with here.
> >
> > I need to develop rsync algorithm into a library that can be re-used 
>with my
> > VB / VC application on Windows platform.
> >
> > I need your advice if there is any library already available on the 
>Internet
> > for this? I did get librsync but that is just a header file which I do 
>not
> > know how to compile also with the existing code I have.
> > Can you please guide me in this?
> >
> > I did see a lot of your pages and even downloaded the exe from your 
>website
> > i.e. rsync2.5.1-dev.exe with cygwin and it works perfectly.
> >
> > But my requirement is that I need to get into rsync code and build it as 
>an
> > API that my VB applications can call rsync & use it to transfer files
> > correctly.
> >
> > Therefore I need to ideally have the ability to re-compile rsync on 
>windows.
> >
> > Can you please help me/ advice accordingly.
> >
> > Thanks for all your help.
> > Sorry for troubling you but I appreciate any response from your end.
>
>If you need compatibility with the "real rsync" application, then you
>have got a tough job ahead of you. The current rsync implementation was
>not designed to be a library, and includes all sorts of
>backwards-compatibility stuff. However, I believe someone has
>implemented a compatible implementation using perl so I guess it's
>possible.
>
>If you don't need rsync compatibility, then librsync is what you want.
>There is a 0.9.6 release coming out soon (hopefuly tommorrow) that
>compiles cleanly on windows using MSVC or cygwin. There would be some
>work in making this compile into a DLL you could call from VB, but
>hopefuly not much. The place to look is;
>
>http://librsync.sorceforge.net/
>
>and badger me for the 0.9.6 release if you don't see it soon. (it's
>already in cvs if you want to get it that way, but it hasn't been tag'ed
>and tar'ed yet).
>
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>Donovan Baarda                http://minkirri.apana.org.au/~abo/
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