Re: GNOME and CYGWin - is it possible?

[Markus Bertheau <twanger bluetwanger de>]

On Tue, 2002-02-05 at 22:39, William Clifford wrote:
> 
> Greetings. :)
> 
> I'm new to the group and was wondering if you all could get me started in 
> the right direction. I'm stuck with CYGWin for right now, and I downloaded 
> the source tarballs for GNOME to try and get it to compile/run. I'm having a 
> "small" issue with the gnome-libs-1.4.1.4 package - it won't "./configure" 
> because it can't seem to detect shared library support. After some 
> investigation, it seems like none of the configure scripts will detect it 
> properly, even if I give it the "--enable-shared" parameter on the command 
> line. I've tried just about everything I can think of. If you don't worry 
> about the shared libraries, the glib-1.2.10 package compiles fine - but you 
> can't compile the gnome-libs package. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

Maybe try to compile static libs instead. I've also seen a pointer to a
website which is about gnome in win32 through cygwin, but unfortunately
I don't have the URL anymore. Iirc, it was done with static libs.

-- 
Markus Bertheau.
Berlin, Berlin.
Germany.