Re: Headaches building Source Navigator under Windows

[Syd Polk <jazzman@bayarea.net>]

On Friday, February 22, 2002, at 01:07 , Bruce Edson wrote:

> Thanks Ian.
>
> I went to Cygwin site and figured out how to get the rest of the 
> utilities.
> So, now I am at the point where the 'configure' as described in the 
> readme
> file, breaks with the following errors.  Could you possibly give me some
> direction on them? I've numbered the output for each issue I saw as it 
> ran.
>
> Directory tree I'm using:
>
> C:/docume~1/bruce/hpkeck~1/snkeck~1   is where Cygwin and bin utilities 
> are
> installed
> C:/docume~1/bruce/hpkeck~1/snkeck~1/source   is where the Source 
> Navigator
> source is
> C:/docume~1/bruce/hpkeck~1/snkeck~1/snbuild    is where my build 
> directory
> is
>
> I execute the configure from snbuild by invoking the following:
>
> ../sourc/configure --host=i686-pc-cygwin
> --prefix="c:/docume~1/bruce/hpkeck~1/snkeck~1/opt/sourcenav"
>

Do you mean ../source/configure?

>
> 1.
> grep: /source/libstdc++-v3/configure.in: No such file or directory

This is probably benign.

>
> 2.
> configuring in itcl/win
> running /bin/sh ../../../../source/itcl/itcl/win/configure
> --host=i686-pc-cygwin --target=i686-pc-cygwin
> '--prefix=c:/docume~1/bruce/hpkeck~1/snkeck~1/opt/sourcenav'
> --cache-file=../../../config.cache 
> --srcdir=../../../../source/itcl/itcl/win
> cd: can't cd to ../../../tcl/win
>

This is also benign. It tries in two locations.

>
> 3.
> configuring in itk/win
> running /bin/sh ../../../../source/itcl/itk/win/configure
> --host=i686-pc-cygwin
>  --target=i686-pc-cygwin
> '--prefix=c:/docume~1/bruce/hpkeck~1/snkeck~1/opt/sourc
> enav' --cache-file=../../../config.cache
> --srcdir=../../../../source/itcl/itk/win
> cd: can't cd to ../../../tcl/win
> cd: can't cd to ../../../tk/win
>

This is also benign.

> 4.
> Configuring libgui...
> checking for working aclocal... missing
> checking for working autoconf... missing
> checking for working automake... missing
> checking for working autoheader... missing
> checking for working makeinfo... missing
>

This is also benign...

> 5.
> Configuring grep...
> checking for working aclocal... missing
> checking for working autoconf... missing
> checking for working automake... missing
> checking for working autoheader... missing
> checking for working makeinfo... missing
>

ditto...

> 6.
> Configuring snavigator...
> checking for Tcl configuration script... (cached)
> /snbuild/tcl8.1/unix/tclConfig.sh
> checking for Tk configuration script... (cached)
> /snbuild/tk8.1/unix/tkConfig.sh
> checking for Tcl headers in the source tree... (cached) configure: 
> error:
> Can't find any Tcl headers
> Configure in /snbuild/snavigator failed, exiting.
>

Where is your tcl.h? Do you have a preinstalled tcl/tk? Or did you check 
it out with snavigator? The problem here is that it cannot find tcl.h.


> Thanks.
>
> Bruce
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Roxborough [mailto:irox@redhat.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 7:03 PM
> To: Bruce Edson
> Cc: sourcenav@sources.redhat.com
> Subject: Re: Headaches building Source Navigator under Windows
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> you need a full working Cygwin environment (which is kind
> of like UNIX) to build Source-Navigators, the include
> development tools like "make" (maybe in the usertools
> and binutils packages?).
>
> Don't know a great deal about Cygwin, but there is
> a bunch of information over at:
> http://www.cygwin.com/
>
> I don't remember much about building on HP-UX, I'm
> not sure if you'll need gcc or the HP-UX compiler.
>
> Any HP-UX users got any tips?
>
> Ian.
>
> Bruce Edson wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've just been put on a project that requires creating a modified 
>> version
> of
>> Source Navigator that runs under Windows 2000 and HP-UX.  My first 
>> task is
>> to get a buildable version working under Windows 2000.  When I get 
>> tired
> of
>> that, I get to do it again under HP-UX.
>>
>> Anyway, to my point, I've read a lot of docs, readmes and a lot of the
>> emails regarding doing this under Windows.  This is totally new to me 
>> so
>> bare with me.  I am familiar with VC++ 6.0 and that is what is 
>> installed
> on
>> my Windows system.  The directions in the Readme seem to take into 
>> account
>> details that are not obvious to me.  For instance, where do I put the
> Cygwin
>> stuff in relation to the sources (it assumes I already have it), why
> doesn't
>> the source tree come with make.exe, etc.  The source I downloaded came
> from
>> SN50-010322-source.zip.
>>
>> I've set up the environment with limited success creating the make 
>> file,
>> when making my source directory a sub-directory of where the Cygwin.bat
> file
>> is installed.  I did see some errors, mainly couldn't find a certain 
>> file.
>> But it made a makefile.  However, the make doesn't run now because
> make.exe
>> doesn't exist.  Do I need to get that too?  Where do I get one that is
>> already built.  What other issues am I going to run into?
>>
>> Long story short, is there a much more detailed, or canned approach
>> available that I can follow step by step knowing I have a Windows 
>> system
>> with just VC++6.0 loaded on it?  One that includes everything that I 
>> need
> to
>> download and what/how to configure?  I'm not real familiar with the 
>> unix
>> arena but am with the Windows.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> The downloaded executable forms of SN work great on Windows, so I know 
>> it
> is
>> buildable.
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> Bruce Edson
>
>
Syd Polk
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