Re: RPM on Windows

[Toralf Lund <toralf procaptura com>]

Vladimir Mihai Pacuraru wrote:
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> When I first had to build RPMs I tried to do it with Cygwin as I've 
> already had the environment in place, but I'm afraid I never could 
> build anything else besides an RPM containing a zero-sized file. So in 
> the end I had to build RPMs on Linux. So personally I guess that 
> building RPMs on Windows OUTSIDE of Cygwin might be even more 
> complicated, if not impossible.
As I understand it, he's not talking about building the actual rpms on 
Windows, though, just to build the rpm support code into a windows 
application that will read rpm files already generated elsewhere.

Anyhow, maybe you are all aware of it already, but in many cases you may 
build a "more native" (than the Cygwin variant) version of GNU-style 
freeware packages by using the MinGW library. See http://www.mingw.org/.

- Toralf