Cygwin

[Greg Silverman]

It's a secret 😉
On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 5:17 PM Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 2015-08-04 at 16:36 -0700, Greg Silverman wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am trying to build samba on cygwin. I have at least these 2
> > problems:
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> I think you have more than 2, the first being that you are trying to
> build Samba on windows! :-)
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> What are you trying to do this for?
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> > 1. The dll's are created with names that contain version numbers. I
> > assume that on linux symbolic links to those so's would be created
> > without version numbers. On windows I can get around this problem by
> > copying a dll to a file with the correct name or creating symbolic
> > links on the command line.
> >
> > 2. The smbregistry dll cannot be built because several functions are
> > not available in the input libraries, such as, db_open and
> > load_parm_int. The dbwrap dll is built but it does not contain the .o
> > file for dbwrap_open.c.
> >
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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> The second problem is that we have circular dependencies, and we need
> to fix those.  Once the build passes without
> allow_undefined_symbols=True in source3/wscript_build (and in other
> places), then this will work.
>
> Andrew Bartlett
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> Andrew Bartlett
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