Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] GCC on Cygwin - just cygwin.dll for clients?

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From: Andrew Hood <ajhood@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 21:37:28 +1000
Kenneth Haagner wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Still can't get windows compiler - except for one place where they
> want an exhorbitant price for unsupported software.
> No problem trying GCC on Cygwin, but would you need to install just
> the cygwin.dll for client machines to see the cygwin binary (the
> entire installation is several MB) ?

I've found the simplest way with cygwin is to "make install DESTDIR=\xxxx"
1. Copy all subdirs in that tree to the target PC.
2. Try to run it.
3. Copy a missing DLL to the directory containing ethereal.exe
4. Repeat from 2 until it works.

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