Re: for interest: cygwin rpm on sourceforge

[Anon Sricharoenchai]

On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, DJ Delorie wrote:

>
> > Why don't make setup a cygwin app ?
>
> Setup can't be a cygwin app because cygwin hasn't been installed yet.
> What happens when cygwin1.dll is itself inside an RPM file?
>
> > Anyway, even though setup isn't a cygwin app, it can make call to rpm.exe
> > (which is a cygwin app) to install RPMs.
>
> Ditto.
>

Can cygwin1.dll be statically linked into setup.exe or rpm.exe ?
Or cygwin1.dll may be placed in the same directory with setup.exe or
rpm.exe, so they can load cygwin1.dll in the setup time.