Re: Can't compile GLib 1.3.5 on Cygwin

[Stefan Ondrejicka <ondrej idata sk>]

On 15 Jun 2001, Owen Taylor wrote:

Hello,

> > I checkouted GLib from CVS Yesterday (cvs -z3 checkout glib).
> > However, I can't compile it on Cygwin. (I've installed autoconf 2.13,
> > automake 1.4a,automake-1.4-p1, and libtool 1.4 on Cygwin).
> 
> The cygwin support for GLib wasn't expected to work out of the
> box until we switched over to libtool-1.4, since it needed
> features from libtool-1.4.
> 
> We switched to libtool-1.4 betwen glib-1.3.5 and glib-1.3.6, but I
> don't know if anybody has actually tested glib-1.3.6 with Cygwin - I
> certainly can't provide any real help debgging problems. I've CC'ed
> Stefan Ondrejicka, who contributed the changes for Cygwin support.
> He may have some ideas.

I have verified now, that glib-1.3.6 works properly on cygwin. Currently I
don't have time to verify wheter CVS version works also, becuase I don't
have currently proper cygwin environment to run autogen.sh script.
Probably better will be to generate distribution package on any sort of
unix machine and than just unpack it and compile on windows machine with
cygwin ... I have quite bad experiences running autogen.sh on cygwin. The
prepackaged 1.3.6 sources compiled well and produced both static and DLL
libraries. During weekend I will test current CVS snapshot, when I will
find time to do so. When someone is interested, I can send compiled
libraries.

Maybe the problem which Jeff found have something to do with missing
pthread support on cygwin ... if so, try to run configure with option
--with-threads=none


Best regards,
Stevo.

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