Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Path: not-for-mail From: Soren A Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin Subject: Re: compiling Tk800.023-1 onto a windows 2000 system with cygwin Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 18:07:19 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Occasionally Sporadically Lines: 97 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: ny-kenton2a-572.buf.adelphia.net X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1030039639 3698 24.51.94.60 (22 Aug 2002 18:07:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet AT main DOT gmane DOT org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 18:07:19 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Xnews/L5 X-Archive: encrypt "Rob Philips" wrote around 22 Aug 2002 news:OF1C167FDB DOT 3428639C-ON41256C1D DOT 0037F082 AT benelux DOT ibm DOT com about %s: > Hello, > > > while compiling Tk800.023-1 onto cygwin all seems to go fantastic but > when i try to do a make install > this is what i get : > > [Rophy]/cygdrive/c/cygwin/Tk800.023-1#make install > cd pTk && make > make[1]: Entering directory `/cygdrive/c/cygwin/Tk800.023-1/pTk' > gcc -c -I.. -I../pTk/mTk/xlib -I. -Ibitmaps -I../pTk/mTk/xlib > -DPERL_USE_SAFE_P > TENV -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include -DUSEIMPORTLIB -O2 > -DVERSION=\ > 800.023\" -DXS_VERSION=\"800.023\" > -I/usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/cygwin-multi/CORE -D > _WIN32__ -D_WIN32 -DWIN32 -Wall -Wno-implicit-int -Wno-comment > -Wno-unused -D__ > SE_FIXED_PROTOTYPES__ imgBMP.c > In file included from tkPort.h:28, > from tk.h:71, > from imgBMP.c:11: > tkWinPort.h:54: warning: `OPEN_MAX' redefined > /usr/include/limits.h:143: warning: this is the location of the > previous defini > ion > In file included from imgInt.h:14, > from imgBMP.c:13: > img.h:21: windows.h: No such file or directory > make[1]: *** [imgBMP.o] Error 1 > make[1]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/c/cygwin/Tk800.023-1/pTk' > make: *** [pTk/libpTk.a] Error 2 > > > Dus anybody know how i can solve this problem??? No. If you want to build pTk from source, no quick fix or magic pill is available. The only solution will come from slogging through, if you have the fortitude and the time. The first thing to do if you are wanting to answer your own question is to correctly describe the nature of the build error that's taken place. You say that the build has gone fine until `make install' but what you've dumped above clearly belies that. The warnings and error above are not messages about an installation procedure failing but about compilation failing. Specifically, "windows.h: no such file or directory" is the show-stopper. So whatever it is you think you've accomplished on previous invocations of `make ', clearly the 'make' program doesn't think you have built the required targets and is trying to satisfy dependencies by compiling things, and fails with an error to find the basic header. That's a very fundamental trouble in your build configuration and until you correct it you'll get no further; but beyond that, I think that if you couldn't interpret the output of the process clearly enough to see that for yourself, you are probably in way over your head and need to back off and learn to port very simple software packages first before attempting something as complex as the Perl extension to Tk. If you decide to learn the old fashioned-way -- by actually learning instead of asking for magic pills -- I have a piece of hard-won wisdom to convey to you: *document* every step you take all along the way, carefully (learn the 'patch' and 'diff' and 'cvs' programs and the customs of the trade with regards to discussing the porting of software packages, take notes and keep logs of screen dumps, etc), and decisively determine that you'll try to present and share (in a clear and rigorous manner) the results of your work with others when you are done (whether the results are fully successful or not). Not only will this sort of effort provide you with a better foundation for future projects you will undertake, but you'll get more satisfaction out of it all at the end of the day, too. And, I'll hazard to mention too that it will earn you 'timeslice merit' with the busy and highly skilled experts that otherwise might not be motivated to give you some of their valuable time -- after all, you have to remember that you are asking help of people who are not paid to give it or under any other sort of obligation to do so. I myself tried to build pTk not long ago and was also unsuccessful. Interested readers can view 'logs' and build configuration data in the form of generated Makefiles, etc. at the location: http://home.att.net/~perlspinr/browse_site.html -- scroll down towards the bottom of the list of documents to see where the pTk stuff begins. On a final note, one of the best ways to learn is to join a mailing List that exists to support and discuss a certain software package and lurk there for an extended period of time. Pay close attention to the differing styles with which people post and notice which styles get the most responsive feedback. The Cygwin List is *not* such a list (that exists to support all phases of porting, using and extending a specific discrete multiplatform software package like pTk); as a matter of fact, surprise, pTk *does* have such a list. Maybe that would be a good place to start. Good Luck, Soren A -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/