Re: Fw: Re: don't know why ./configure command fails

[Dave Korn <dave dot korn dot cygwin at googlemail dot com>]

Jaroslav Rynik wrote:
>>>> (Is C# and C the name for the same programming
>>> language? In my setup
>>>> options I have noticed just a C compiler.)
>>> No; C# is a Microsoft-invented language based loosely on C++ but with
>>> big bits of Java mixed in!  That's your problem: you
>> need
>>> a C# compiler, but there isn't one in the cygwin distribution.  There
>>> is, however, a free open source one available from the Mono project:
>>> 
>>> http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page
>> OK. Thanks. Which location should I install mono, so that ./configure
>> works?
> 
> without waiting I've already installed the mono-2.4-gtksharp-2.12.8-win32-6
> to C:\Program Files (Full installation), but when I ran the ./configure, 
> Missing C# compiler message appeared.
> 
> Cygwin is installed to D:\pokus\cygwin.
> 
> Should I reinstall the compiler to another location?

  The general rule is that ./configure will find anything that's in a
directory in your $PATH variable.  Make sure any directories with EXEs or DLLs
from the mono package are added.

  Note that the binary you got from there is a native windows binary, and it
will probably only understand windows style filenames.  Configure may well try
and give it posix style filenames and it might get confused.  If you run into
that sort of problem, you might end up having to build and install a
cygwin-native version of mono (which you can do using the windows native
version to get started and build it with).  I found a page at

  http://shana.worldofcoding.com/en/mono_cygwin_tutorial.html

that looks like it should work if you need to do that.

    cheers,
      DaveK

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