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RE: Can't build Insight with Cygwin
- From: "Peter Rockett" <p dot rockett at sheffield dot ac dot uk>
- To: <insight at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 23:39:30 -0000
- Subject: RE: Can't build Insight with Cygwin
- Reply-to: <p dot rockett at sheffield dot ac dot uk>
Keith
Although Insight seems to look for a number of things like gettext, at the
end of the day it doesn't seem to actually need them to build. So I think
the minimal set of cygwin tools, apart from the base cygwin collection, is:
gcc, make, bison, flex, tcl/tk (+ the dependencies which the cygwin
installer figures-out for itself). Certainly I fell down on bison & flex.
You could add autoconf and automake to that list although I am not sure they
are essential - perhaps "recommended" might be a good description.
(Perhaps you may also need to add an FAQ for us *cygwin* users to help us
turn on our computers, tell us how to go to the bathroom, etc.!)
Best wishes,
Peter
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keith Seitz [mailto:keiths@redhat.com]
> Sent: 24 December 2005 18:09
> To: p.rockett@sheffield.ac.uk
> Cc: insight@sources.redhat.com
> Subject: Re: Can't build Insight with Cygwin
>
>
> Keith Seitz wrote:
>
> >> Not sure what I was doing but I think the files may have
> been left in
> >> some sort of limbo state by my first attempts at building when I
> >> didn't have bison and flex installed. (Although I thought I had
> >> cleaned and periodically recreated the directory from the .bz2
> >> file... but it's all beginning to blur
> >> now.) Having delved into it, it's obvious now that I
> needed bison and flex
> >> but it wasn't in the beginning.
>
> BTW, if you send me a list of packages that you needed to install for
> cygwin, I'll add an FAQ question for it.
>
> Off the top my my head, I'm sure the list would include: gettext,
> gettext-devel, flex, and bison (I presume people who want to build
> Insight are savvy enough to have gcc & friends installed).
>
> Anything else?
> Keith
>