Re: Building on win32 without cygwin

Mike Lin wrote:
> Hi, I'm trying to build Synopsis on win32 without Cygwin. Im using a 
> variety of win32 tools to do this, like mingw, pthread-win32 etc. My 
> problem is that in the setup.py it calls the configure scripts like this:
> C:\development\msys\1.0\bin\sh.exe -c 
> "../../../../../../Synopsis/Parsers/Cxx/co
> nfigure --with-python=`cygpath -a C:\\DEVELO~1\\Python23`/python.exe"
> 
> Which doesnt work because i dont have cygpath.

The idea was to require cygwin as the development environment, and
then either build *for* cygwin (i.e. using cygwin as runtime environment,
too), or native, i.e. use 'gcc -mno-cygwin' (or however the flag is called)
to build something that can be run without any support libs from cygwin.

I'm very open to enhancements to the build process, though right now I
don't have access to a windows machine to help to develop it. (that will
probably change in the coming weeks).

Some people even suggested to switch away from make/autotools to something
else such as scons.

> Im not familiar enough 
> with distutils to fix this. I have succeded in compile the Cxx parser on 
> its own, but it would be nice to have the rest working. Any help would 
> be awesome!

How did you compile the Cxx parser ? In particular, how did you link with the
python library ? Is the Cxx parser usable as a synopsis module ?

In any case, you may want to follow up in the issue tracker at
http://synopsis.fresco.org/issues/bug19

Thanks,
		Stefan