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- Building Polipo on Windows -*-text-*-
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-
- There are two distinct ports of Polipo to Windows -- a port using the
- Cygwin emulation libraries, and an experimental native port using Mingw.
-
- The Cygwin port is identical to the Unix binary. Build it just like
- you would build under Unix -- just type ``make all'' in the directory
- where you untarred the Polipo sources.
-
- In order to build the native port, cd to the Polipo directory, and do
-
- make EXE=.exe LDLIBS=-lwsock32
-
- or, if you've got a regex library,
-
- make EXE=.exe EXTRA_DEFINES=-DHAVE_REGEX LDLIBS="-lwsock32 -lregex"
-
- In order to cross-compile from a Unix system, you will probably need
- to point make at the right compiler:
-
- make EXE=.exe CC=i586-mingw32msvc-gcc LDLIBS=-lwsock32
-
- The native port currently attempts to access files in locations that
- are typical for a Unix system; for example, it will attempt to read a
- configuration file /etc/polipo/config on the current drive. You will
- probably need to point it at your config file with an explicit ``-c''
- command-line argument, and define at least the following configuration
- variables:
-
- dnsNameServer
- diskCacheRoot
- forbiddenFile
-
- Help with solving this issue would be very much appreciated.
-
- Juliusz Chroboczek
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