Hi Nic, I was talking about something like this:
http://xoomer.virgilio.it/hherold/ or this: http://studwww.ugent.be/~bpuype/wget/ Cheers, Rob. --- Nicolas Noble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Anyone have or know anyone who maintains native > Win32 > > builds of lftp? > > > > I have no problem compiling the source on Cygwin > but I > > don't have MSVC and would love a single native > Win32 > > file. > > > > Cheers, > > Rob. > > I don't quite understand the link between "cygwin" > and "MSVC". > > You don't need MSVC to compile a native win32 > binary. Cygwin's gcc comes > with the option -mingw32 or something like this > which disable the cygwin's > dll need. Then, with this switch, you can compile > MSVC code directly. > > However, lftp DOES rely on UNIX "specific" features > (if we can call > sockets "specific"), and thus, can not be compiled > without them, ie, > without the cygwin dll. > > To be short: windows does not handle sockets > natively as unix does. You > have to recode (or we can say, "add") a lot of > things to make them work > under windows natively, and that's exactly the point > of using cygwin's > dll. > > Cheers, > > -- Nicolas Noble > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now http://companion.yahoo.com/
