Re: [libredwg] building under Windows with Cygwin

[Aurélio A . Heckert]

That explains why everybody loves Juca. :-)

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 5:18 PM,  <address@hidden> wrote:
> I have successfully built LibreDWG in a Windows XP machine today.
>
> But I have had some issues, so here is what I did:
>
> Install Cygwin.
> In the installer you must open the "devel" list expander and select these
> packages:
> git, automake, gcc, make, libtool
>
> after installing cygwin, open it and type:
>
> git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/libredwg.git
>
> this will fetch our current development code. Enter the directory with:
>
> cd libredwg
>
>
> I did not find ps-lib package in the cygwin distribution. This package is
> needed for one of our exemple programs, which outputs postcript files from a
> given dwg.
> For now, you should edit examples/Makefile.am and remove all references to
> dwg_ps
>
> Then in order to build, the common procedure would be the usual:
>
> ./configure
> make
> make install
> make check
>
> unfortunatelly, for some not yet well know reason, it complained about
> libtool version.
> So, to fix that, I did type this command:
>
> autoreconf -i
>
> This recreates the configure script using the currently installed version of
> libtool (I think - correct me if I'm wrong).
> Then you can do this to build:
>
> ./configure
> make
>
> and this to install the lib:
> make install
>
> and then you do this to build the examples:
> make check
>
>
> Happy Hacking!
> Felipe "Juca" Sanches
>



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