MinGW32 might be just what you need to build it without any Cygwin dependencies....
http://www.mingw.org/
Good luck!
> Message: 3
> Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 15:23:23 -0700
> From: Patrick Fleming <pfleming@infomagic.net>
> To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Re: GUI Development Libraries
> Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
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> Derek Neighbors wrote:
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> >
> > You should look at wxWindows. It is C++ and extremely cross platform.
> > It is also free as in beer and speech. There is a very good Python
> > version as well called wxPython.
> Except not completely free if it's compiled using Cygwin... I'm having
> *fun* trying to get it to install properly so that projects compile
> without dependency on the cygwin1.dll... it's a path or environment
> issue that I would like to (but can't with confidence) say I am close to
> solving.
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