October 2000
Intermediate to advanced
432 pages
9h 9m
English
As explained in Section 24.2, "Installing GNU Autotools on Cygwin," GNU Autotools requires several other tools to operate. Most Unices provide the majority, if not all, of these prerequisites by default. Windows, unfortunately, does not. Cygwin is better than most in this respect, and only a few extras are required. The latest net release of Cygwin (1.1.1 at the time of writing) has a packaging mechanism that downloads and installs various Unix tools that have been precompiled for the Cygwin environment by the Cygnus folks. To develop with GNU Autotools and Cygwin, you need to install all these packages to make sure you have all the necessary header files and compiler tools.
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