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Re: Help!Unable to compile 1.3.22-1 sources
- From: "Max Bowsher" <maxb at ukf dot net>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>,"Vishal Jain" <vxj45 at hotmail dot com>
- Cc: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 00:30:39 +0100
- Subject: Re: Help!Unable to compile 1.3.22-1 sources
- References: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0304101908280.8014-100000@slinky.cs.nyu.edu>
Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> Back when I compiled from source tarballs, I used a simpler approach:
>
> - Install sources for cygwin, w32api
> - cd /usr/src/cygwin-<ver>/winsup && ln -s /usr/src/w32api-<ver> w32api
> - cd /usr/src/cygwin-<ver> && mkdir build && cd build && configure <opts>
>
> where <opts> are the options from http://cygwin.com/contrib.html.
I can't find any options there. But it works for me with no options.
> I don't know why you'd need mingw...
I didn't try without. I just set out to make the tarball look as much like a
cvs checkout as possible.
> You *do* need bo build in a separate directory, though...
Yes. Vishal, did you do this?
Max.
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