Re: RPM on Windows

The RPM runtime requires a Posix System. The placed question has already
been discussed in the past, leading to the same consideration.

hth

On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 1:32 PM, Toralf Lund <[email protected]> wrote:

> Vladimir Mihai Pacuraru wrote:
>
>> [ ... ]
>>
>>
>> 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
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