[m-dev.] Building w/ Cygwin

Bryce Dooley thecrow at cyberdude.com
Thu Jul 8 13:12:14 AEST 1999


It appears that distribution has no binaries.  They must
be built.

I've tried building it again but I know I'm not doing something
right 'cause I'm still getting that stinking can not run config.sub
error.

Anyone got actual binaries posted?

Thanks.
Bryce

-----Original Message-----
From: Tyson Dowd <trd at cs.mu.OZ.AU>
To: mercury-developers at cs.mu.OZ.AU <mercury-developers at cs.mu.OZ.AU>
Date: Tuesday, July 06, 1999 7:21 PM
Subject: Re: [m-dev.] Building w/ Cygwin


>On 06-Jul-1999, Bryce Dooley <thecrow at cyberdude.com> wrote:
>> #include "newbie.darn"
>
>Hi, and welcome.
>
>You should consider using
>
>:- import_module newbie.
>
>>
>> Hi all,
>>   I was trying to build under Cygwin-b20 and when I
>> run the following command line:
>>   sh configure
>>
>>   I get:
>>     loading cache ./config.cache
>>     configure:  error:  can not run ./config.sub
>>
>> Anyone ran into this one?
>
>I suspect you need to have sh.exe in your path.  Best to put it into
>/bin and make sure /bin is in your path.  You can set $PATH from the
>batch file that runs the cygnus shell, or from your .bashrc (but to
>use .bashrc that you need to set $HOME anyway).
>
>These lines are in my batch file:
>
>SET PATH=c:\utils\cygnus\CYGWIN~1\H-I586~1\bin;c:\bin;%PATH%
>SET HOME=D:\HOME\TYSON\
>
>In my .bashrc I add a patch to my local installation of Mercury.
>
>If you are building from scratch it is be worthwhile applying the
>patch in the README.MS-Windows file.
>
>> Are there any already built win32 binaries posted on
>> the web?
>
>ftp://ftp.mercury.cs.mu.oz.au/pub/mercury/mercury-0.8.1.pc-windows-cygwin-b
20.1.tar.gz
>
>But you will still need to get cygwin setup to use the build
>environment.
>
>Tyson.
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