RE: [Aubit4gl-discuss] CVS compile using Cygwin

[Andrej F. <af...@xt...>]

> When attempting a build of the latest CVS on Cygwin I get the following
> problem.
>
> make[2]: Entering directory `/cygdrive/h/aubit4gl/aubit4glsrc/lib/libmenu/menu_generic'

Should not happen - Aubit menu implementation, generic and XDR, both depend on GTK and are possible only in GUI mode.
(Mike, scream if I'm wrong)

I fixed configure to disable menu_genric when there is no GTK.

> Regarding GTK for Cygwin. Where is the best place to get hold of it and
> what is the current version (2.2.1 or 1.3.0)? The link on the website does
> not work anymore

Bugger! Why do people move there web sites every few months?

http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32/

> and attempts to build both the Unix and Win32 versions
> fail,

...of what?

> so I'm a bit stuck. It looks like it needs to be patched to get it
> to work.

what needs to be patched?

> Hope none of this is too stupid, I coming at this from a Windows only background,
> so configure/make/gcc etc are all new to me :-)

Lot's of fun aint it? :-)

Did you try Windows native binary build (with installer - point & click:-)?

BTW, in tools/cygwin, there is a script to install GTK on windows, from the mess of files you will download from Tor's
site; it's called install_gtk+.sh. Use it.

BTW2, there is nothing "CygWin" about GTK+ Windows port - it's a native build.

BTW3, you do not need CygWin to compile or use Aubit any more, we just use it as it's conveniently packaged with all the
GNU tools we need.

But you can compile Aubit with just native GCC (like MinGW) and few native Windows tools (Make, Bash, Awk, ...)

Andrej