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Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 17:28:22 -0800
From: Chris Fogelklou <chris DOT fogelklou AT ubicom DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Clueless about install
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Hi Chris,

>>"The Cygwin tools are ports of the popular GNU development tools and
>>utilities for Windows 95, 98, and NT.  They function by using the Cygwin
>>library which provides a UNIX-like API on top of the Win32 API."

>>Notice that there is no hint of the words "linux" or "cross-compile" in
>>this description.

Thank you very much!

In that case, I think I'll un-install.  I already have Borland 5.0 and Visual
C++ 6.0, and I'm familiar with both, so I don't necessarily need another
one.  Do you know of a way I can cross-compile for linux on a strictly
windows machine?  I'm almost out of HD space and I don't really want to
dual-boot the system.  I used to be able to remotely do it on my college's
linux machine, but I no longer have access...

Thanks a million!

Chris Fogelklou

Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 30, 2000 at 04:19:09PM -0800, Chris Fogelklou wrote:
> >I downloaded the whole thing..  (I think...  The full/part button would
> >go bold/not bold depending on how many times I clicked it, so I assumed
> >that bold meant full)
>
> The net install of cygwin should require running setup and:
>
> Next
> Click on "Install from Internet"
> Next
> Next
> Next
> Click on "Direct Connection" (most likely)
> Next
> Next
> Next
> Next
> Ok
>
> >Now, the icon for cygwin.bat, when run, tells me
> >"bad command or file name", so I opened it, and found that it was trying
> >to run a program called bash...
>
> That would be an indication that something went wrong with the setup.
>
> >After reading the faq, I found that I probably need to download bash...
> >no link, no mention of where it might be...  Shouldn't it be included
> >in the full version of the download?
>
> Yes.  Something went wrong in the setup/download.
>
> >Then, I tried to run fileman.exe, just because it sounded like some type
> >of file manager...  funny, it tells me that a required dll, cygwin1.dll,
> >is missing... hmmm...  thought I just downloaded the cygwin full setup
> >program(?!?!)...
>
> Apparently something went wrong with your setup/download.
>
> >Here's another interesting tidbit...  The directory \cygwin\lib contains
> >a whole lot of files ending in ".dll.a"...  Am I to assume that I should
> >rename these all to .dll?  Shouldn't the setup program have done this
> >for me too?
>
> No.  The files are correctly named.
>
> >I would love trial and error, if today were opposite day.  Really, all
> >I want to do is cross-compile a C++ .cgi program on my windows '98
> >machine so that it will run on my ISP's linux machine...  Please help
> >me out!!!
>
> Well, here's the kicker -- cygwin doesn't do that.  You can build a C
> compiler/linker to do this but it is not available by default.  And,
> it won't be easy if you have no experience doing this.
>
> If you do decide to try cygwin, you should rerun setup.exe without
> trying to overcomplicate things (i.e., basically just answer the obvious
> questions and hit Next), paying attention to any errors that may crop
> up.  If you do see any errors then please send them here.
>
> Btw, this is what you'll get (from the web page):
>
> "The Cygwin tools are ports of the popular GNU development tools and
> utilities for Windows 95, 98, and NT.  They function by using the Cygwin
> library which provides a UNIX-like API on top of the Win32 API."
>
> Notice that there is no hint of the words "linux" or "cross-compile" in
> this description.
>
> cgf

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Chris Fogelklou
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Scenix Semiconductor
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