Hello. This patch adds configure option allowing to disable build of `cygserver`. This is useful when one needs to build only `cygwin1.dll` with stage1 compiler that is not yet capable of linking executables as it's missing `cygwin1.dl` and `crt0.o`.
Radek
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>From c0254ff2f6631a2775bfb74483b7813f0822fb0a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Radek=20Barto=C5=88?= <radek.bar...@microsoft.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2025 22:56:58 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Cygwin: cygserver: add possibility to skip cygserver build
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Signed-off-by: Radek BartoĊ <radek.bar...@microsoft.com>
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winsup/Makefile.am | 12 ++++++++++--
winsup/configure.ac | 7 +++++++
winsup/cygserver/Makefile.am | 2 ++
3 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/winsup/Makefile.am b/winsup/Makefile.am
index 9efdd4cb1..a8a82d4c8 100644
--- a/winsup/Makefile.am
+++ b/winsup/Makefile.am
@@ -14,10 +14,18 @@ cygdoc_DATA = \
CYGWIN_LICENSE \
COPYING
-SUBDIRS = cygwin cygserver utils testsuite
+SUBDIRS = cygwin utils testsuite
+
+if BUILD_CYGSERVER
+SUBDIRS += cygserver
+endif
if BUILD_DOC
SUBDIRS += doc
endif
-cygserver utils testsuite: cygwin
+utils testsuite: cygwin
+
+if BUILD_CYGSERVER
+cygserver: cygwin
+endif
diff --git a/winsup/configure.ac b/winsup/configure.ac
index 13aa309b2..59b19486c 100644
--- a/winsup/configure.ac
+++ b/winsup/configure.ac
@@ -83,6 +83,13 @@ AC_ARG_ENABLE(doc,
enable_doc=yes)
AM_CONDITIONAL(BUILD_DOC, [test $enable_doc != "no"])
+# Disabling build of cygserver is needed for zero-bootstrap build of stage 1
+# Cygwin toolchain where the linker is not able to produce executables yet.
+AC_ARG_ENABLE(cygserver,
+ [AS_HELP_STRING([--disable-cygserver], [do not build
cygserver])],,
+ enable_cygserver=yes)
+AM_CONDITIONAL(BUILD_CYGSERVER, [test $enable_cygserver != "no"])
+
AC_CHECK_PROGS([DOCBOOK2XTEXI], [docbook2x-texi db2x_docbook2texi])
if test -z "$DOCBOOK2XTEXI" ; then
if test "x$enable_doc" != "xno"; then
diff --git a/winsup/cygserver/Makefile.am b/winsup/cygserver/Makefile.am
index ec7a62240..efb578e53 100644
--- a/winsup/cygserver/Makefile.am
+++ b/winsup/cygserver/Makefile.am
@@ -12,7 +12,9 @@ cygserver_flags=$(cxxflags_common) -Wimplicit-fallthrough=5
-Werror -DSYSCONFDIR
AM_CXXFLAGS = $(CFLAGS)
noinst_LIBRARIES = libcygserver.a
+if BUILD_CYGSERVER
sbin_PROGRAMS = cygserver
+endif
bin_SCRIPTS = cygserver-config
cygserver_SOURCES = \
--
2.49.0.vfs.0.4
0001-Cygwin-cygserver-add-possibility-to-skip-cygserver-build.patch
Description: 0001-Cygwin-cygserver-add-possibility-to-skip-cygserver-build.patch
