Re: Help: build emacs in cygwin

[djh]

> > I successfully build emacs from cvs source code on February 21st,
> > using cygwin's native environment.
> 
> Could you please tell what compiler version you used?  And what Cygwin
> version?

gcc (GCC) 3.4.4 (cygming special, gdc 0.12, using dmd 0.125)

cygwin version : CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.5.24(0.156/4/2) 2007-01-31 10:57

GNU ld version 2.17.50 20060817

# configure invocation line: 
./configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info 
--exec-prefix= --with-x  --with-xaw3d  --with-jpeg --with-png --with-gif 
--without-toolkit-scroll-bars --with-xpm --with-tiff 
--x-includes=/usr/X11R6/include/X11  --x-libraries=/
usr/X11R6/lib   

> 
> > I haven't tried with cygwins GTK for a long time as it was broken at one 
> > point.
> > I don't know about now.   
> 
> The GTK+ build with Cygwin is still broken, unfortunately.
> 
> One way of solving that would be to convince the Cygwin developers to
> treat memalign specially as they do with malloc.  If someone has
> influence on how Cygwin is developed, please ask them.

I'll bring it up.  Thanks.

Darel Henman