How To: Re: LessTif build under Cygwin32?

[Rick Scott]

What ld does configure find without all the editing.

You should be able to set the evironment variable LD to whatever you want
before you run configure, and it should use that.  Should be easier than
editing files.

I would like to fix it so that it "configures out of the box".


> Stipe,
> I cannot send you precompiled LessTif 0.87 libraries right now.
> I use Cygnus only to create Makef ile and test the configuration files.
> For the final compilation I use PGI commercial compilers.  Therefore,
> the
> compiled Cygnus/LessTif binaries were desrtroyed. However, I do have
> configuration files in-tact yet to recreat them again.
> 
> However, I will be able to send you a precompiled LessTif 0.87 next
> week.  All, I have to do is to run a "make
> clean" then "make" commands to rebuild them.
> 
> Here are some MUST which users can follow to compile LessTif 0.87
> themselves.
> 
> 
> 1) X11R6.4 installation is required.  Compile it yourself or download it
> from
> Andy Piper's or Sergey's web sites.
> 
> 2) The hard drives must be monuted in binary mode otherwise
> configuration files
> will fail.  Users must use Sergey's COOLVIEW.  Cygwin1.lib out of Cygnus
> distribution
> gives problems.
> Als, use EGCS-1.1.1 from Mumit Khan.  The GCC in Cygnus distribution
> gives problems, somtimes.
> 
> 3) Lesstif-current.tar.gz source code must be extracted on a binary
> mounted disk
> using tar zxvf lesstif-current.tar.gz.  Do not use anyother utility to
> extract the source
> code otherwise you will have a pars errors mess during compilation.
> 
> 4) Go to Lesstif-current source directory and edit "configure" script.
> Search for the
> line LD='$ac_cv_path".
> Change it to LD="/usr/cygnus-b20/H-i586-cygwin32/bin/ld.exe" (repalce it
> with your correct path)
> Use only VI editor (no vanila Microsoft Note pad please)
> 
> 5) Go to Xlt directory and edit the "configure" script.
> Search for the
> line LD='$ac_cv_path".
> Change it to LD="/usr/cygnus-b20/H-i586-cygwin32/bin/ld.exe" (repalce it
> with your correct path)
> Use only VI editor (no vanila Microsoft Note pad please)
> 
> 6) Go to Lesstif/test subdirectory and
> Search for the
> line LD='$ac_cv_path".
> Change it to LD="/usr/cygnus-b20/H-i586-cygwin32/bin/ld.exe" (repalce it
> with your correct path)
> Use only VI editor (no vanila Microsoft Note pad please)
> 
> 7) Now run the "configure" script with the following command
> 
> ./configure --prefix=/lesstif/dist --x-includes=/usr/cygwin-b20/X11R6/in
> clude --x-libraries=/usr/cygwin-b20/X11R6/lib --target=H-i586-cygwin32 -
> -enable-shared=yes --enable-static=yes
> 
> Note: Repace /usr/cygwin-b20 according to your system path for Cygnus
> B-20.1 installation.  I have it installed under
> /usr/cygwin-b20 on my system, because I am still using B-19 too.
> 
> 8) Now run the make" command and LessTif should compile, under
> Cygnus-B-20.1
> ----
> *************************************************
> Suhaib M. Siddiqi, Ph.D.
> Senior Research Chemist
> Inspire Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
> 4222 Emperor Blvd., Suite 470
> Durham, NC 27703-8466
> 
> Tel: 919-941-9777 Ext. 238
> Fax: 919-941-9797
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> 
> ============================
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Stipe Tolj <tolj@uni-duesseldorf.de>
> To: Suhaib M. Siddiqi <Ssiddiqi@InspirePharm.com>
> Cc: Jon A. Christopher <jon@quorum.tamu.edu>; tromey
> <tromey@cygnus.com>; Rick Scott <rwscott@omnisig.com>; Francois Felix
> Ingrand <felix@dial.oleane.com>; Kilfoyle, Greg
> <greg.kilfoyle@compaq.com>; lesstif <lesstif@hungry.com>; gnu-win32
> <gnu-win32@cygnus.com>; automake <automake@gnu.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 1999 7:32 PM
> Subject: Re: LessTif build under Cygwin32?
> 
> 
> >Hello,
> >
> >> I was refering to myself.  I did not have any problems in compiling
> >> LessTif 0.87 under Cygnus-B20, Cygnus-B-19, using EGCS and with
> >> a little hack (i.e manually altering all the Makefiles generated by
> >> configure script under Cygwin) I used PGI compilers to
> >> compile LessTif 0.87.
> >
> >may someone be able to contribute a clean binary package or even better
> >cygwin supported port source for out of the box compilation of the
> latest
> >lesstif and I'll put it on our distribution page at our project's web
> site.
> >
> >Same thing for the DDD debugger if available.
> >
> >Please consider Cygwin b20.1 as building and compilation environment.
> Thanks.
> >
> >Regards,
> >Stipe
> >
> >--
> >Stipe Tolj <tolj@uni-duesseldorf.de>
> >
> >Cygwin Porting Project -- "We build UNIX on top of Windows"
> > http://www.student.uni-koeln.de/cygwin/
> >
> >Department of Economical Computer Science
> >University of Cologne, Germany
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 
> 

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