How To: Re: LessTif build under Cygwin32?

[Suhaib M. Siddiqi]

Stipe,
I cannot send you precompiled LessTif 0.87 libraries right now.
I use Cygnus only to create Makef ile and test the configuration files.
For the final compilation I use PGI commercial compilers.  Therefore,
the
compiled Cygnus/LessTif binaries were desrtroyed. However, I do have
configuration files in-tact yet to recreat them again.

However, I will be able to send you a precompiled LessTif 0.87 next
week.  All, I have to do is to run a "make
clean" then "make" commands to rebuild them.

Here are some MUST which users can follow to compile LessTif 0.87
themselves.


1) X11R6.4 installation is required.  Compile it yourself or download it
from
Andy Piper's or Sergey's web sites.

2) The hard drives must be monuted in binary mode otherwise
configuration files
will fail.  Users must use Sergey's COOLVIEW.  Cygwin1.lib out of Cygnus
distribution
gives problems.
Als, use EGCS-1.1.1 from Mumit Khan.  The GCC in Cygnus distribution
gives problems, somtimes.

3) Lesstif-current.tar.gz source code must be extracted on a binary
mounted disk
using tar zxvf lesstif-current.tar.gz.  Do not use anyother utility to
extract the source
code otherwise you will have a pars errors mess during compilation.

4) Go to Lesstif-current source directory and edit "configure" script.
Search for the
line LD='$ac_cv_path".
Change it to LD="/usr/cygnus-b20/H-i586-cygwin32/bin/ld.exe" (repalce it
with your correct path)
Use only VI editor (no vanila Microsoft Note pad please)

5) Go to Xlt directory and edit the "configure" script.
Search for the
line LD='$ac_cv_path".
Change it to LD="/usr/cygnus-b20/H-i586-cygwin32/bin/ld.exe" (repalce it
with your correct path)
Use only VI editor (no vanila Microsoft Note pad please)

6) Go to Lesstif/test subdirectory and
Search for the
line LD='$ac_cv_path".
Change it to LD="/usr/cygnus-b20/H-i586-cygwin32/bin/ld.exe" (repalce it
with your correct path)
Use only VI editor (no vanila Microsoft Note pad please)

7) Now run the "configure" script with the following command

./configure --prefix=/lesstif/dist --x-includes=/usr/cygwin-b20/X11R6/in
clude --x-libraries=/usr/cygwin-b20/X11R6/lib --target=H-i586-cygwin32 -
-enable-shared=yes --enable-static=yes

Note: Repace /usr/cygwin-b20 according to your system path for Cygnus
B-20.1 installation.  I have it installed under
/usr/cygwin-b20 on my system, because I am still using B-19 too.

8) Now run the make" command and LessTif should compile, under
Cygnus-B-20.1
----
*************************************************
Suhaib M. Siddiqi, Ph.D.
Senior Research Chemist
Inspire Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
4222 Emperor Blvd., Suite 470
Durham, NC 27703-8466

Tel: 919-941-9777 Ext. 238
Fax: 919-941-9797
E-Mail: Ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com
http://www.inspirepharm.com

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----- Original Message -----
From: Stipe Tolj <tolj@uni-duesseldorf.de>
To: Suhaib M. Siddiqi <Ssiddiqi@InspirePharm.com>
Cc: Jon A. Christopher <jon@quorum.tamu.edu>; tromey
<tromey@cygnus.com>; Rick Scott <rwscott@omnisig.com>; Francois Felix
Ingrand <felix@dial.oleane.com>; Kilfoyle, Greg
<greg.kilfoyle@compaq.com>; lesstif <lesstif@hungry.com>; gnu-win32
<gnu-win32@cygnus.com>; automake <automake@gnu.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 1999 7:32 PM
Subject: Re: LessTif build under Cygwin32?


>Hello,
>
>> I was refering to myself.  I did not have any problems in compiling
>> LessTif 0.87 under Cygnus-B20, Cygnus-B-19, using EGCS and with
>> a little hack (i.e manually altering all the Makefiles generated by
>> configure script under Cygwin) I used PGI compilers to
>> compile LessTif 0.87.
>
>may someone be able to contribute a clean binary package or even better
>cygwin supported port source for out of the box compilation of the
latest
>lesstif and I'll put it on our distribution page at our project's web
site.
>
>Same thing for the DDD debugger if available.
>
>Please consider Cygwin b20.1 as building and compilation environment.
Thanks.
>
>Regards,
>Stipe
>
>--
>Stipe Tolj <tolj@uni-duesseldorf.de>
>
>Cygwin Porting Project -- "We build UNIX on top of Windows"
> http://www.student.uni-koeln.de/cygwin/
>
>Department of Economical Computer Science
>University of Cologne, Germany
>
>
>
>

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