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Re: Dealing with Symlinks
- From: Greg Chicares <gchicares at sbcglobal dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2011 16:14:47 +0000
- Subject: Re: Dealing with Symlinks
- References: <32489424.post@talk.nabble.com>
On 2011-09-18 13:28Z, tedthetool wrote:
>
> I am trying to compile openssl.
It's already available as a Cygwin package, BTW.
> When I run make and make test, I get trivial
> compile errors. See,
>
> error: expected identifier or '(' before '!' token
> error: stray '\377' in program
> error: stray '\376' in program
\377\376 sounds like a UTF-16 byte order marker. Are you using the
same sources as the Cygwin package? See:
http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-cat.cgi?file=openssl%2Fopenssl-0.9.8r-2-src
> My friends tells me that this is because cygwin doesn't deal with the
> symlinks present in C header files. How do I remedy this?
Did the compiler display a diagnostic indicating that it couldn't
find some header? If not, then the cause might be something else.
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