a2ps under Windows Me

[Lars Gustafsson]

Question at end of mail

 

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Starks-Browning" <address@hidden>
To: "Lars Gustafsson" <address@hidden>
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 1:05 PM
Subject: Re: a2ps under Windows Me


> On Tuesday 8 Jan 02, Lars Gustafsson writes:
> > P.S. I wrote "configure" at the cygwin prompt in the a2ps-4.12 directory D.S.
>
> When you type "configure", it looks for the file among the directories
> listed in your $PATH environment variable.  '.' is not among them.
> (In Windows, '.' is always implicitly in your path.  In unix, which
> Cygwin emulates, it is not.)
>
> There is an entry:
>
> Bash says "command not found", but it's right there!
>
> in the Cygwin FAQ at <http://cygwin.com/faq/> which describes this.
> (It is described for compiled programs, rather than a script, but the
> concept is the same.)
>
> The solution is easy, type "./configure" instead of just "configure".
>
> It does build, I did it last night myself, but it takes a *very* long
> time.  Also, if you have not installed all Cygwin packages, you may
> discover that stuff is missing along the way.  Just use Cygwin setup
> to add them, and start again.  You may need to start from scratch
> whenever you do this, or configure will lose track of what you have
> available on your system.
>
> I ignored the warning to install psutils, it just depends on what you
> want a2ps to do for you.
>
> If you have a DeskJet instead of PostScript printer, change the media
> to A4dj, to make the margins bigger.  You'll need something like
> GSview to actually print the PostScript files to a non-PostScript
> printer.
>
> I have these answers because I had to do it myself at home last night.
>
> Good luck.  Someday, a2ps may be available directly from Cygwin's
> setup.exe, but not yet unfortunately.
>
> Regards,
> David
>

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> On Monday 7 Jan 02, Lars Gustafsson writes:
> > Hi ,is it possible to install a2ps under Windows Me and if it is,
> > how do you do it? I have Cygwin, Visual Studio and an X11 server
> > installed allready.
> >
> > Best Regards, Lars
>
> If you have Cygwin installed, you should just be able to "configure;
> make; make install" just like you would in UNIX.  Did you try it?!?
>
> Regards,
> David
> (Cygwin FAQ maintainer)
>

 

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I installed a newer version of cygwin (20.1 I had B20) so now it finds the file but stopps after a short while whith this message:
address@hidden:/cygdrive/c/uppzippat/a2ps/a2ps-4.12>./configure
creating cache ./config.cache
checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... eval: 1: Syntax error: Unterminated quoted
 string
address@hidden:/cygdrive/c/uppzippat/a2ps/a2ps-4.12>

I can't figure out which files I need to download using the setup program from this message. First I tried to configure with the "-disable-nls" and "-with-medium=A4dj" options but got essentially the same message. I have set my PATH-variable to a bin directory in Bloodshed's Dev-C++ 4.0(, which uses gnu's g++-compiler), which has a file "make.exe".

 

Regards, Lars