Subject: Re: Build Problems on win2k
From: Tom Briggs (tomabi@jules.briggs.cx)
Date: Tue Mar 27 2001 - 22:00:55 CST
Hi Mike,
It sounds like you're environment variables aren't correctly
configured. That's just guess, but it's probably a good place to
start. :)
For a complete rundown of everything you need to do to get AbiWord
building with CygWin, check out:
http://www.abisource.com/~tom/winbuildhowto.html
-Tom
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Michael J. Emswiler wrote:
> Kudos on such a great cross-platform app -- it's far quicker and more
> responsive than most any other cross-platform app of its kind/size that
> I've seen!
>
> I'm trying to build on win2k and believe I have all of the tools/source
> setup properly, however, I must have done something wrong because I've
> encountered the following error below.
>
> This must be documented somewhere, but, of course, according to my
> girlfriend, I can't find the salt when it's sitting right in front of me :-)
>
> ===== bash make results =====================================
>
> bash-2.04$ make
> make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
> bash-2.04$ pwd
> /cygdrive/c/abiword/source/expat
> bash-2.04$ cd ..
> bash-2.04$ cd abi
> bash-2.04$ ls
> BUILD.TXT README.TXT docs src
> todo.win.txt
> BiDiReadme.txt TRADEMARK.TXT dumpstrings.pl test todo.xp.txt
> COPYING UnixFonts.txt mpw-build todo.beos.txt user
> COPYRIGHT.TXT UnixLocales.txt po todo.gnome.txt
> CREDITS.TXT VERSION.TXT po2abi.pl todo.qnx.txt
> Makefile abi2po.pl shots todo.unix.txt
> bash-2.04$ make
> Building AbiSuite with [ABI_ROOT=/cygdrive/c/abiword/source/abi]
> make ABI_ROOT=/cygdrive/c/abiword/source/abi -C src
> make[1]: Entering directory `/cygdrive/c/abiword/source/abi/src'
> Building with [LicensedTrademarks:Off Debug:Off BiDi:Off Pspell:Off].
> make ABI_ROOT=/cygdrive/c/abiword/source/abi -C config build
> make[2]: Entering directory `/cygdrive/c/abiword/source/abi/src/config'
> Building with [LicensedTrademarks:Off Debug:Off BiDi:Off Pspell:Off].
> make ABI_ROOT=/cygdrive/c/abiword/source/abi -C require build
> make[3]: Entering directory
> `/cygdrive/c/abiword/source/abi/src/config/require'
> Building with [LicensedTrademarks:Off Debug:Off BiDi:Off Pspell:Off].
> make ABI_ROOT=/cygdrive/c/abiword/source/abi -C xp build
> make[4]: Entering directory
> `/cygdrive/c/abiword/source/abi/src/config/require/x
> p'
> Building with [LicensedTrademarks:Off Debug:Off BiDi:Off Pspell:Off].
> Found expat in peer directory
> loading cache ./config.cache
> checking host system type... cc: not found
> configure: error: can not guess host type; you must specify one
> make[5]: Entering directory `/cygdrive/c/abiword/source/expat'
> make[5]: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
> make[5]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/c/abiword/source/expat'
> make[4]: *** [_EXPAT_] Error 2
> make[4]: Leaving directory
> `/cygdrive/c/abiword/source/abi/src/config/require/xp
> '
> make[3]: *** [build] Error 2
> make[3]: Leaving directory
> `/cygdrive/c/abiword/source/abi/src/config/require'
> make[2]: *** [build] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/c/abiword/source/abi/src/config'
> make[1]: *** [build] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/c/abiword/source/abi/src'
> make: *** [compile] Error 2
>
> Thanks,
> MikeE
>
>
>
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