Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/04/10/22:23:52
It doesn't build without mingw. It fails in building utils.
It has some dependency. Don't know for sure.
I think it is picking headers(sys/types.h etc) from mingw. It does not build
with those headers in newlib/..
Vishal
>From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
>Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
>To: Max Bowsher <maxb AT ukf DOT net>
>CC: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com, Vishal Jain <vxj45 AT hotmail DOT com>
>Subject: Re: Help!Unable to compile 1.3.22-1 sources
>Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 22:16:11 -0400 (EDT)
>
>On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Max Bowsher wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
>Actually, the options were from <http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#SEC104>,
>but as I now look at it, they are only --prefix=... and -v (or so I say
>now; back then I was so configure-unwary that I didn't want to digress one
>little bit from the prescribed track lest I be lost in mounds of gory
>details).
>
> > > 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.
>
>I think mingw is optional. Come to think of it, I remember Chris Faylor's
>comment that he made w32api optional as well... But that may have been in
>a different context.
> Igor
>
> > > You *do* need bo build in a separate directory, though...
> >
> > Yes. Vishal, did you do this?
> > Max.
>
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