Stefan Westmeier:

> has anyone got RPM 5.x compiled successfully with mingw ?

Only cygwin, and that was pretty late in the game as well...

It's not "officially supported", at any rate. (Unix only)

>  So far we use RPM 5.x with cygwin. Another tool provider brings  
> its own cygwin installation.
> We try to get around any incompatibilities. Thats why I ask for mingw.
>
> Thx in advance for any hints.


RPM assumes a Unix-like environment, so it works with
something like Cygwin or Darwin - rather than something
more alien like Windows (i.e. MinGW) or Mac OS X paths.

So I'm using "other solutions" (shell hacks, mostly) to
build for those at the moment. What I haven't tried is
using the cygwin binaries of RPM in a MinGW environment...

--anders