[redland-dev] getting redland to build on cygwin

[Adam Souzis]

I couldn't build redland 0.9.15 with python support on cygwin without 
modifying its python makefile.

Here's what I had to do:

1. python/makefile.am add these lines to the rule
$(PYTHON_PACKAGE)-stamp: $(PYTHON_PACKAGE)_wrap.so :

    elif test `uname` = CYGWIN_NT-5.0; then \
      args=" -shared -L$(PYTHON_LIB)/../config -lpython$(PYTHON_VERSION)"; \

2. rename the resulting Redland_wrap.so file Redland_wrap.dll

This page helped me figure this out:
http://www.signal6.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?SwigFaq/SharedLibraries
(see Q: How do I create DLLs using Cygwin?)

It doesn't look you 'officially' support cygwin, but at least this email 
will eventually lead to a google search for "redland cygwin build" 
returning  something useful.

-- adam