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Is it possible for you to provide a pre-compiled client for windows without the cygwin install?

• cperciva 17y ago
  Pre-compiled clients are on my to-do list. Obviously I want to do this is a systematic manner so that my release process is more repeatable than "find boxes running the following operating systems: ... and borrow them for a few minutes to build a binary". I'm not sure if it's possible to build binaries using cygwin which will then run without having cygwin installed. If not, this would turn into "port tarsnap to Windows", which is also on my to-do list, but much lower down.
  • jhancock 17y ago
    When you finally do have a pre-compiled windows app, sans cygwin, I'll have more clients to refer to tarsnap. One client I'm dealing with now has health care data needing backup. I wouldn't trust other online backup services with this, but would trust tarsnap. For now, we're using USB hard drives.
  • felixmar 17y ago
    With MinGW you can cross-compile from Linux (and perhaps also from FreeBSD). Imho Cygwin is not suitable for applications like tarsnap that should be very reliable and fast.
  • 0wned 17y ago
    Try mingw and msys. You can compile static, stand-alone C or C++ code for distribution.
    • cperciva 17y ago
      Thanks, I'll be looking into that. Does mingw provide a full POSIX API layer?
  • smh 17y ago
    Investigate the -mno-cygwin option for gcc.