LXR on cygwin?

Gerrit P. Haase gerrit@familiehaase.de
Sun Jun 5 12:58:00 GMT 2005


Gene Smith wrote:

> I am interested in running LXR (source browser) on a Windows 2k laptop 
> with cygwin. I have installed lxr-0.9.3 on a couple of linux machines 
> with no problem. LXR, written in perl, uses the following helper 
> applications:
> 
> apache
> exuberent ctags
> glimpse (or swish-e)
> mysql (or postgresql)
> perl
> perl DB driver for mysql or pg
> 
> I installed apache, ctags, postgresql and perl from the cygwin setup. 
> Does anyone know of problems I might have installing and getting the 
> whole thing to work under windows/cygwin?

Glimpse or swish-e should also be possible to build, at least Glimpse
was suggested for inclusion once, however it doesn't arrived at the
Cygwin mirrors.

> There exists a somewhat out of date site that descirbes how to do this 
> but with old LXR and cygwin:
> http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/lxr.htm

Yes, it is pretty old, and uses AS Perl and Win32 Apache, should be
easier to get it running with all Cygwin programs.


Gerrit
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