X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-YMail-OSG: 3YZYz_IVM1k2dFn29Viv_SgLIYhH8YvCUTQ2cRSHVvTxQaLruwfpaLDQTseyWCsReETqCdQoI3CMEtF7iEkxPE.29Qi319O7FHA98E9X6rRUS43QAFpONERnjekTX8NiPdI- X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 Message-ID: <481FB65F.9020805@sbcglobal.net> Date: Mon, 05 May 2008 18:37:35 -0700 From: Tim Prince Reply-To: tprince AT computer DOT org User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Newbie needs help using mingw with cygwin References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Mark Hanlon wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to building Lilypond from source using cygwin (Some parts of the lilypond source have to be changed so that is why I can't download the binary :( > > I am using the configure script supplied with Lilypond. > > Unfortunately, Lilypond requires GCC 4.0 and above, so I have downloaded a mingw at version 4.1. > I have changed my Path Environment variable and the etc/profile file to use the mingw version of GCC. > > Everything works fine apart from when I run the configure script it is now complaining that it can't find guile and flex. > When I don't use mingw, it finds them and only complains about the compiler being less than 4.0. > > Anyone any ideas what is going on and an idea how to fix it would be lovely. > > You're asking for mingw to work as a cygwin compiler, but the run-time libraries are incompatible. I'd bet on installing a recent gcc build for cygwin. If you don't need g++, you could take pre-built binaries from gfortran wiki. Doesn't the lilypond maintainer have instructions? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/