[Privoxy-users] Compiling Privoxy under Windows using Cygwin

[Lee]

On Thu, Sep 10, 2026 at 12:06 PM Jan Claeys via Privoxy-users <
privoxy-users at lists.privoxy.org> wrote:

> 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?


For me?  No.
It was a long time ago that I looked at MSYS2, so things might be different
now, but
1. I couldn't get privoxy to build under MSYS2
2. I was using cygwin for a lot more than building privoxy & wasn't
interested in maintaining a totally different build system that I might use
once a year for building privoxy.

In short - use MSYS2 or whatever you like for building privoxy.  I can
still help a bit if you're trying to build privoxy using cygwin; I can't
help at all if you use something else.

Regards
Lee