[Privoxy-users] Compiling Privoxy under Windows using Cygwin

[Jan Claeys]

On Tue, 2026-09-08 at 18:05 +0000, Lee via Privoxy-users wrote:
> oops.  'setup-x86_64 ... pcre2,mbedtls,brotli' gets you the cygwin
> version of those libraries.  You need the cross-compiled mingw
> versions to build a "native" app which is the reason for all that
>   ... build the static PCRE libraries with
>   ... If you want to be able to have Privoxy do TLS Inspection, ...
> build the static libraries with stuph under the Windows 2.2.1.1 Setup
> section
> 
> Then update the windows/MYconfigure script to reference the libraries
> you just built.
> 
> I built everything in /source which is why you'll see stuff like
>     inc="/source/pcre2-10.47/src/"
> in the script.  Adjust according to where you built the libraries
[…]

Wouldn’t it be easier to use something like MSYS2 to build Privoxy for
Windows?  It provides MinGW-compiled packages of libraries like
'mbedtls'/polarssl, 'brotli', 'pcre', etc.


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Jan Claeys

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