Building and running DDD with Cygwin: one minor problem, and one fatal one

[Karr, David]

I'm trying to build and run DDD (3.3.11) under Cygwin (1.5.19).  I had
one minor issue that I was able to workaround, and one that I can't get
past.

The first problem was the construction of the "configinfo.C" file.  What
was originally generated was the following:

static const char *config_sccs_info = 
"@(#)Built 2006-03-30 by David M. Karr <david.karr@wamu.net>.
                   
\n";

This had two embedded ^M characters.  When it tried to compile this, it
produces the following diagnostics:

if g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.  -I./.. -isystem /usr/X11R6/include
-O2 -g -Wall -W -Wwrite-strings -trigraphs  -MT configinfo.o -MD -MP -MF
".deps/configinfo.Tpo" -c -o configinfo.o configinfo.C; \
then mv -f ".deps/configinfo.Tpo" ".deps/configinfo.Po"; else rm -f
".deps/configinfo.Tpo"; exit 1; fi
configinfo.C:7: error: missing terminating " character
configinfo.C:9: error: stray '\' in program
configinfo.C:9: error: missing terminating " character
configinfo.C:10: error: `n' was not declared in this scope
configinfo.C:10: error: expected `,' or `;' before "const"
configinfo.C:6: warning: 'config_sccs_info' defined but not used
make[2]: *** [configinfo.o] Error 1

To work around this, I manually edited the generated "configinfo.c"
file, changing the line to:

static const char *config_sccs_info = 
"@(#)Built 2006-03-30 by David M. Karr <david.karr@wamu.net>.\n";

This let the build finish.

After I built it and installed it, I ran it, and it immediately brought
up a dialog that said:

"The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000005)."

I don't find any $HOME/.ddd directory, so there's no log file.
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