Re: [Fontforge-devel] fontforge and cygwin

[Jose Da S. <di...@jo...>]

On February 16, 2014 06:04:01 AM Heiko Jacobs wrote:
> I just trying to compile fontforge under cygwin and have some problems
> ...
> after bootstrap ./configure says, that there are now libspiro
> and libuni* ... Mmmmh ... I saw, that configure only uses /lib
> and /usr/lib, but the 3 things are installed to /usr/local/lib
> as default.
> How to say configure, that it should use also /usr/local-stuff?
> (Besides libs may be incs etc., too ... don't know ...)

I'm not running cygwin, but you are in an interesting position to see if 
this resolves it. Would you mind seeing if this works? It is "before" 
bootstrap and still uses autogen.sh

https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/releases  (use ver 20140101).
This version still uses:
sh autogen.sh
./configure
make
sudo make install


> Starting make it stops at Unicode/ucharconv.c because of missing
> libiconv Looking at cygwin installer I found libiconv including devel
> 1.14-1 and libiconv2 installed, only debug version not installed.
> I found libiconv.(dll.)a at (/usr)/lib, so it should be found?!
> 
> Then I configured --without-iconv
> Now it compiles fine ...
> ... until it reaches directory fontforgeexec and there
> CCLD libfontforgeexec.la
> There make produces a loooooong list of errors. It seems that make
> found NOTHING of things compiled before ...

apt-get automake and also dev-libtools (I think).
...as it currently stands at this time, the make system still doesn't check 
for libtools (I think).