HOWTO build GLib on Cygwin/Mingw

Installation

• Install the latest Cygwin
• Start a bash shell
• $ export CVSROOT=':pserver:anonymous@anoncvs.gnome.org:/cvs/gnome'
• $ cvs -z3 checkout glib
• Replace win32-fixup.pl in the glib directory
• $ cd glib
• $ ./win32-fixup.pl
• $ make -f makefile.mingw

Notes

• DLLs, .a (mingw), .lib (msvc) are all created