Re: Compiling with Cygnus's Cygwin

[Duane Ellis]

I've used CYGWIN for a *LARGE* number of Unix based tools.
it's quite impressive. (Though not with freetype)

The real snag though is this:

a) Your DOS PATH -vrs- the UNIX path.

   When using the 'cygwin' package, you must be *VERY* careful
   of your DOS path.

   For instance, many 'configure' scripts make use of 'grep'
   or sed, or what ever.

   The configure scripts assume a real *UNIX* version of the commands
   not the 'grep' that comes with some DOS/WINDOWS programers tool kit.

   For instance, when you type 'date' what runs? The DOS command date
   or the Unix 'date' command?

b) autoexec.bat:  SET MAKE_MODE=UNIX

   In this mode, 'gnumake' (which comes with cygwin) will
   act like Unix make - and work.

   Without this, well - my Unix scripts don't work.

c) Some configure scripts try to execute from the /bin/TOOLNAME
   path, but if that does not exist... well it chokes.

   Two solutions:

   a) Use cygwin 'mount' command.

   b) on your C drive, (not D) create a /bin directory, and copy the
      stuff out of cygwin into the "/bin" directory.