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On 9/18/2011 9:28 AM, tedthetool wrote:

> I am trying to compile openssl. When I run make and make test, I get trivial
> compile errors. See,
>
> error: expected identifier or '(' before '!' token
> error: stray '\377' in program
> error: stray '\376' in program
>
> My friends tells me that this is because cygwin doesn't deal with the
> symlinks present in C header files. How do I remedy this?

In my experience this won't happen if you are using tools
built to run in the cygwin environment (if that is indeed
the problem). So, which C compiler are you running?

Best wishes -- Eliot Moss

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