Here's a better proposal: make a DLL available for download from
apr.apache.org.

That way there's no problem with people that don't want to buy MSVC
or compile using cygwin.

- Jason

--- "William A. Rowe, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 04:14 AM 3/5/2002, you wrote:
> >To build APR is not that difficult.  On the Windows platform you
> either 
> >need MSVC or cygwin.
> 
> Please be advised;
> 
> the cygwin build is NOT a win32 platform build - it uses the cygwin
> emulation
> layer, with all it's beauty and blemishes :)
> 
> We would -certainly- entertain the mingw32 patches to build the
> native win32
> binaries based on mingw.  Admittedly, that may be more difficult
> with the 
> native
> APIs we use internally, but I suspect it's doable.
> 
> I'll be happy to review any mingw build script here, just follow
> the usual
> guidelines [diff -u3, prefer cvs diff -u3 against the current
> tree.]
> 
> Bill
> 
> 


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