Re: building/running on cygwin?

[Andreas Zeller]

Hi!

Kevin Hilman <khilman@equator.com> writes:

> Is anyone successfully building/running DDD on cygwin 1.1?
> 
> As of 3.2.95, I can build DDD using the latest cygwin 1.1 (and the
> prebuilt xfree stuff from the xfree/xc-4-binaries directory).
> 
> I also downloaded and built the latest lesstif (0.92.6) and built that
> on cygwin also.


> The DDD configure/build goes fine, but when I run DDD, there are
> _lots_ of warnings (see attached log) and 3 popups.

The attached log tells me that the `Ddd' app-resource file and some of
the icons files contain CR ("^M") characters (obviously following the
MS-DOS convention of separating lines with CR/LF instead of only LF as
in UNIX.)  It seems the X and XPM libraries cannot deal with this
properly.

Please run the following command

        $ grep -l '^M' `find .`

(use Ctrl-V Ctrl-M to enter the ^M character)

1. on a DDD source package just after unpacking  (tar xvf ...)
2. on the same DDD source package after configuring  (./configure)
3. on the same DDD source package after making  (make)

and let me know what you find.  I'll set up the Makefile such that
these ^M characters will be removed.

As a workaround, you can remove the ^M characters by yourself.  Try

        $ sed 's/^M//g' FILE > FILE~; mv FILE~ FILE

for any text file FILE with ^M in it.  If you do this, let me know if
it helps.


> (1) VSL interpreter failed: builtin no such file or directory (2)

> Could not load VSL library "builtin" (3) GDB could not be started.

You get these three popups when starting DDD before installing it.
Simply use `make check' to start DDD; read the INSTALL file for details.


> I noticed that lesstif 0.87 was recommended.  Would that help solve
> these problems? If so, where can I find 0.87, can't seem to find it
> from lesstif.org.

Actually, that's lesstif 0.87 or later.  Any recent Lesstif release
will do.

Good luck,

Andreas Zeller

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