[tlbuild] asymptote build

Ken Brown kbrow1i at gmail.com
Tue Jun 23 20:38:29 CEST 2009


On 6/23/2009 1:31 PM, T T wrote:
> On 23/06/2009, Angelo Graziosi <angelo.graziosi at alice.it> wrote:
>> T T ha scritto:
>>
>>> Yes, I mean symlink to asy.exe. Do I need to symlink freglut.dll as
>>> well? Unless cygwin uses its own loader for executable code, this
>>> shouldn't be necessary but I have no idea.
>> Perhaps Ken has better idea...
> 
> OK, after some googling around I found out that cygwin relies on
> Windows loader for starting processes and that symlinking dlls doesn't
> even work.

Cygwin is all taken care of.  There is an asymptote.i386-cygwin package 
that contains asy.exe and freeglut.dll.  These binaries get installed in 
bin/i386-cygwin when a cygwin user installs asymptote, and nothing more 
needs to be done.

Ken


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