#27 Unable to compile under Win7 using Cygwin + `make' or `jam'

[Neil Richardson]

• Installed FT-Jam v2.5.2
• Installed (by unzipping) Jam into c:\code\tools\jam
• Added Jam to the System PATH
• Installed Cygwin modules:
• autoconf v2.5 (2.68-1)
  Auto-added dependencies:
  • autoconf (10-1)
• automake v1.10
  Auto-added dependencies:
  • automake v1.10
  • automake v1.11 (1.11.1-1)
  • automake v1.4 (1.4p6-10)
  • automake v1.5 (1.5-10)
  • automake v1.6 (1.6.3-11)
  • automake v1.7 (1.7.9-10)
  • automake v1.8 (1.8.5-10)
  • m4 (1.4.16-1)
• Installed CUnit v2.1-2
• Unzipped to c:\code\lib\CUnit-2.1-2

• Ran Cygwin

  • aclocal
  • autoconf
    -> Some crash errors
  • automake
    -> More errors
  • ./configure
  • make
    -> Some crash errors
  • make install
    => FAIL
  • Go back to autoconf, configure

  • jam
    => FAIL

  • make clean

  • autoconf
  • ./configure
  • jam
    -> Complains that JAM_TOOLSET is not set
  • set JAM_TOOLSET=VISUALC
  • jam
    -> Complains that JAM_TOOLSET is not set
  • export JAM_TOOLSET=VISUALC
  • jam
    -> found 7 targets, but no Jamfile
  • jam -f Jamrules
    -> ``don't know how to make all''
    -> found 1 target, can't find 1 target

Attachment shows fresh attempt, with CUnit folder erased and extracted fresh from .tar.bz2 file.

[Neil Richardson]

Run log attempting to build using Jam on Win32

[Neil Richardson]

Run log attempting to build using Cygwin and autoconf tools on Win7