On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 02:58:49PM -0700, thoni56 wrote: > I'm a maintainer of a program that I'd might like to propose for inclusion in > the Cygwin distribution. > > We use CMake so there is a packager available, and it's easy to create a > .bz2 package. > > Once I've created the package, how can I try it locally? In Linux this can > easily be done with dpkg, but is there a way to use the Cygwin package > installer so that it picks up a local package? > > I've read [the package contribution documentation][1] and related pages but > can't find an answer. > > /Thomas > > [1]: https://cygwin.com/setup.html
Cygwin packages generally use Cygport to define the build process and so forth. It's more-or-less the equivalent of rpmbuild for RPM packages, and similar tools for other distribution systems. The documentation for Cygport is at http://cygwinports.github.io/cygport/; if you're using make in a reasonably standard way, most things should Just Workâ˘. In particular, if you're using Cygport, it'll automatically do things like creating setup.hint files for you. For testing locally, I find it's simplest to just do `tar -xaC/ -f <tarball>` on the compiled tarballs that Cygport generates. That doesn't test the dependency management or anything that requires post-install scripts, but it's fine for checking the installation itself works. -- 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
