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From: "Ilmari Heikkinen" <>
> On 9/21/07, Ilmari Heikkinen <> wrote:
>> On 9/21/07, Peña, Botp <> wrote:
>> > From: Ilmari Heikkinen [private.php?do=newpm&u=]
>> > # tarball: http://dark.fhtr.org/repos/metadata/...1.0-rc2.tar.gz
>> >
>> > is it possible for a gem?
>>
>> If there's a way to install bin/chardet as-is, now gem adds
>> "#!/usr/bin/ruby"-boilerplate (which doesn't quite work for a
>> python script.) ...Though, I could always turn it into a ruby script
>> that executes a bit of python. So, yeah, it is possible. I'll build one.
>>
>> > will this run on windows?
>>
>> In theory. At least the Ruby parts (i.e. wma, flac, mp3, torrents.)
>> No idea if you can get the external programs and libs installed and
>> running, sounds unlikely. But hey, feel free to prove me wrong
>>
>
> Or, one could make a VMWare image or somesuch and use it as a
> metadata appliance. Anyone know how that might work best?

Or perhaps build the external programs with cygwin?

(I think most cygwin programs only depend on cygwin1.dll which is
about 1.2 meg on my system.)


Regards,

Bill

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From: "Peña, Botp" <>
> From: Bill Kelly [private.php?do=newpm&u=]
> # (I think most cygwin programs only depend on cygwin1.dll
> # which is about 1.2 meg on my system.)
>
> interesting, i didn't know that. So what is the minimum set of files needed to run
> cygwin? i'm asking since i haven't used one for a long long time now..

It depends. (lol, pun not intended, but my next sentence was going to involve
depend.exe)

Er... using depends.exe [1] one can view a tree of dependencies for a .exe or
dll file (among other object formats.)

A number of cygwin-compiled binaries only depend on cygwin1.dll. (Not
counting windows modules like kernel32.dll.)

To verify this, I was successfully able to copy just cygwin1.dll and
cygwin/bin/ftp.exe into a subdirectory elsewhere, and change the shell
execution path to simply ".", and the program worked.

Other binaries, like cygwin/bin/ls.exe, required a couple extra .dll's
(in this case for handling character set encodings) like cygintl-3.dll and
cygiconv-2.dll

A more complex program like cygwin/bin/wget.exe still had minimal
and reasonable dependencies: character set handling and crypto
libraries:

cygwin1.dll, cygintl-3.dll, cygiconv-2.dll, cygcrypto-0.9.8.dll, cygssl-0.9.8.dll

So it appears the cygwin folks have done a nice job at avoiding
dependency bloat.


[1] http://www.dependencywalker.com/


Regards,

Bill