Tomasz Kojm wrote: > On Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:14:24 -0500 > René Berber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Do we get back support for Cygwin? > > Hello René, > > we generally had not so good experience with Cygwin based builds of ClamAV > over the past few years. The most common problem was different detection > results depending on the versions of cygwin dlls used (eg. sometimes older > dlls performed better than the latest ones, etc.). We got a lot of reports for > such issues and spent too much time looking for problems in ClamAV which > didn't really exist... We find the native builds much more reliable (and of > course many times faster) and very likely will start providing the win32 > binaries with ClamAV 0.95.
By support I meant getting answers on this list, nothing more. The idea of Cygwin is to be able to build with the same sources used under Linux. Of course there are problem areas, those are few, and the Cygwin maintainers/package porters should take care of them. My recommendation for ClamAV is to get rid of all the #ifdef CL_CYGWIN blocks, and any others related to Cygwin. A native build will not work with Exim (which has sections written explicitly for Cygwin and builds out of the box, just like ClamAV) or any other application that uses sockets; the socket file is not compatible with native applications. Thanks for taking time to reply. -- René Berber _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
