Re: Cygwin build

Jack L <jlist9-FFYn/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.fastcgi.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello Verse,

I was able to build lighttpd with cygwin and lighttpd's fastcgi
worked just fine. I used it with PHP, which I also built with
cygwin. I didn't build any fastcgi servers with cygwin
but I think it should work.

Jack

Friday, January 13, 2006, 1:19:30 AM, you wrote:

> Hello,
> I scanned the entire archive and found only a few references to Cygwin,
> years ago. Would anyone know how to make a successful Cygwin build? I
> can do configure and make, but make install sputtered.

> I can successfully make the Visual Studio build for NT, but this isn't
> helpful - I need the Cgywin build. Why? Because I'm want to run the 
> Ruby-FastCGI installation next. It contains an "extension", written in
> C. To compile that requires the proper Fast-CGI include files and 
> libraries. The Ruby-FastCGI package is a Linux package, so I can't build
> that with Visual Studio; I'm forced to stay within the Cygwin emulation
> system.

> Ruby-FastCGI is needed for use with Lighttpd, which is very useful for
> much better performance for Ruby-on-Rails apps.

> Hopeful,
> -Thomas

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