[Gambas-user] CompileingGambas 3.9.2 on Windows10 Cygwin.

[Tobias Boege]

On Sat, 07 Jan 2017, jogeri63 wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I’m trying to compile Gambas 3.9.2 on Windows10 Cygwin.
> After running command "|./configure -C --disable-inotify --disable-v4l|"
> I got message: 'configure: error: ./configure failed for main ...'
> see attachment 'output.txt'
> 

> configure: loading site script /usr/share/config.site
> configure: loading cache config.cache
> checking whether ln -s works... yes
> checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
> checking for a BSD-compatible install... (cached) /usr/bin/install -c
> checking whether build environment is sane... yes
> checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... (cached) /usr/bin/mkdir -p
> checking for gawk... (cached) gawk
> checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... (cached) no
> checking whether make supports nested variables... (cached) no
> checking whether make supports nested variables... (cached) no
> checking build system type... (cached) x86_64-unknown-cygwin
> checking host system type... (cached) x86_64-unknown-cygwin
> checking that generated files are newer than configure... done
> configure: creating ./config.status
> config.status: creating Makefile
> config.status: creating config.h
> config.status: config.h is unchanged
> === configuring in main (/gambas3-3.9.2/main)
> configure: running /bin/sh ./configure --disable-option-checking '--prefix=/usr'  --cache-file=../config.cache --srcdir=.
> configure: loading site script /usr/share/config.site
> configure: loading cache ../config.cache
> ./configure: line 2076: syntax error near unexpected token `main'
> ./configure: line 2076: `GB_INIT(main)'
> configure: error: ./configure failed for main
> -bash: make: Kommando nicht gefunden.
> -bash: make: Kommando nicht gefunden.

Well, for one the "make" utility is missing. You need to install it along
with all the other build dependencies[1] (with the required versions).
I don't know about the syntax error on configure:2076, though, but maybe
that solves itself when the proper versions of autotools are installed.

In case you are not aware, Bastian Germann succeeded in compiling Gambas for
cygwin[2] and gave some short installation instructions here[3].

Regards,
Tobi

[1] http://gambaswiki.org/wiki/install
[2] https://sourceforge.net/p/gambas/mailman/message/35018459/
[3] http://gambaswiki.org/wiki/install/cygwin

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