On 2017-04-04 12:06, Vince Rice wrote: >> On Apr 4, 2017, at 12:58 PM, Wayne Barron wrote: >>> 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. >>> 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. > You didn't have to download it from anywhere. Cygport is a Cygwin > package, it can/should be installed from Cygwin's setup.
Also calm if you want to maintain local or ports repos and install with setup. -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada -- 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
