Compile dmidecode on Cygwin

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Added: Mon, Jan 20th 2003 14:01 PDT (5 years, 4 months ago) Updated: Tue, Feb 27th 2007 07:13 PDT (1 year, 3 months ago)

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Dmidecode reports information about your system's hardware as described in your system BIOS according to the SMBIOS/DMI standard. This information typically includes system manufacturer, model name, serial number, BIOS version, asset tag, and a lot of other details of varying level of interest and reliability, depending on the manufacturer. This will often include usage status for the CPU sockets, expansion slots and memory module slots, and the list of I/O ports.

Directions to get this to compile under cygwin.

I had to run cygwin setup and select gcc ( I selected all of them ) and make, also I selected automake but I am not sure if that was necessary.

Then
make
Then I will take the EXE to another system along with Cygwin1.dll.

This resulted in an error, I think the answer is here:
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-04/msg00458.html

with Windows 2003 only kernel process have access to physical memory.

But then read this
http://lists-archives.org/cygwin/34232-dev-mem-permission-denied.html

Will have to revisit another day to see if I can get this working for Windows 2003.


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Error Messages on Windows 2003 Server
# dmidecode 2.9
/dev/mem: Permission denied

Here are the files, cygwin is nto installed locally.
biosdecode.exe
cygwin1.dll
dmidecode.exe
ownership.exe
vpddecode.exe


cygwin1.dll version - 1005.25.0.0

Here is information from the workstation I used to build dmidecode.
$ cat /proc/version
CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.5.25(0.156/4/2) 2007-12-14 19:21