hate to ask- compiling cygwin1.dll

Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) lhall@rfk.com
Mon Oct 29 15:05:00 GMT 2001


At 04:47 PM 10/29/2001, Peter Buckley wrote:
>I hate to ask this to the list, because I am sure it has been asked before. But I am getting nowhere searching the mailing list archives, and some messages say "find out how to compile the cygwin1.dll at http://cygwin.com" ;. I can't seem to find out how to do this in the docs or the faq.
>
>Even if someone could suggest some better search terms, it would be a big help.
>
>I have all the source, and have extracted the cygwin source tarball, and it looks like "./configure" is succeeding. But when I do a make, it looks good for awhile and then I get the following error-
>
>make[2]: Entering directory 'cygdrive/d/petes-path-to-source/i686-pc-cygwin/winsup/cygwin'
>make[2]: *** No rule to make target `all'.  Stop.
>
>There is a symlink to Makefile.in in this directory, and it has an 'all' target. Maybe I need to do some other preparatory steps, like copying the source to a certain directory (not the default place where I extracted it)?
>
>I hope someone could point me in the right direction, even "STMLA again, you just need the 142nd match" or "RTM, search for c-o-m-m-p-i-l-e instead of compile."



http://www.cygwin.com/contrib.html is the pointer I know of.



Larry Hall                              lhall@rfk.com
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