>> On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 12:08 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: >>> On 2017-04-04 05:38, Chris Davies wrote: >>>> >>>> As an example, my use case is Perl-DBD-Sybase from about three weeks >>>> ago, which works beautifully but is not in the main repository. Short of >>>> moving to a Linux-based platform I'm now not sure how to proceed. Could >>>> someone enlighten me, please? >>> >>> >>> You could try building it yourself: >>> >>> https://github.com/cygwinports-extras/perl-DBD-Sybase >>> >>> You'll need cygport, perl, and libsybdb-devel. If it weren't for that >>> patch, you could also just install it from cpan. >> >> On Apr 4, 2017, at 12:58 PM, Wayne Barron wrote: >> >> @Chris, >> I know that Cygwin and Cygport are not the same. >> I was asking if you could perhaps share information on how to properly >> install Cygport. >> >> I downloaded it from here. >> https://github.com/cygwinports/cygport >> >> In the Cygwin, it had a Windows 32 or 64-bit installer. >> This does not come with such.
First, please don't https://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU. Second, https://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR. You didn't have to download it from anywhere. Cygport is a Cygwin package, it can/should be installed from Cygwin's setup. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
