Re: dpkg with mingw32 / win32

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Phil Lello schrieb:
> Hi all,
>
> Is anyone currently working on getting dpkg to handle windows installs?
>
> I'm writing some cross-platform software, and would love to be able to 
> use dpkg (and eventually apt or similar) to install dependencies.
>
> I'm happy to work on this myself, but want to check what other people 
> are doing before starting on this. This would be fairly low priority 
> for me.
>
> The main requirements I have are:
>    - Assignment of architecture for control file (no obvious choices 
> from ubuntu/gutsy `dpkg-architecture.pl -L`)
>    - Assignment of standard '-admindir' (probably $PROGRAM_FILES$/dpkg)
>    - Running 'dpkg -i'

There has been some work on this in the past:
http://debian-cygwin.sourceforge.net/ and afaik it's also in Cygwin now.

cheers,
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