On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 02:36:46PM +0100, JC Simonetti wrote:
>
> The 2 other solutions are :
> ...
> 2. Cygwin and the Amanda source code: very functional but you have to install 
> a Linux emulator on your Windows box... I don't like the idea (what would you 
> say if I told you that you have to install a Windows emulator on your BSD to 
> backup your BSD?)


In addition to "cygwin", which has a large overhead,
the same project has another package called, I think,
"mingw".  Unlike cygwin, which requires a cygwin dll
to be on the system, and is GPL'ed, mingw compiles
are standalone and can be used to generate non-GPL'ed
executables (I think I'm correct there, net lawyers will
complain if I'm not :)

I've not, but I wonder if anyone has tried to get a
set of amanda client executables built under mingw
and using the previously mentioned tarNT?

BTW, the mingw package would be another way to build
the selfcheck/true executable without a full IDE.


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