[gobolinux-users] Re: New scripts and cygwin

[Hisham Muhammad]

On 7/17/06, Rohan Nicholls <rohan.nicholls at pareto.nl> wrote:
> Hey there all,
>
> I have installed rootless on cygwin, and have run into a couple gotchas.
>
> The InstallPackage should never be used, and it is for Scripts.  It gets
> you up and running but because of the new c coded executables, the src
> file needs to be recompiled.
>
> I figured this out because I kept getting errors during SymlinkProgram
> that I finally looked at more carefully (i.e. no links were being created)
>
> This is what I did....
>
> went to Scripts/Current/src
> make
> This will give you the .exe versions of the files.
> As I was not sure what make install would do, I just deleted the
> equivalent elf files is Scripts/Current/bin and copied the .exe files
> from the src directory to bin.
>
> It all works now.
>
> I don't see any C files in Compile which is why it was working.
>
> Thought you should all know.  Is there a cygwin page on the wiki where I
> should post this information?

I don't think so, but feel free to create one! :)
Thanks for the info.

-- Hisham