Re: help building DDD on windows XP platform

[Andrew Gaylard]

Mike Hansen wrote:
> I'm trying to build and use DDD within Cygwin on my Windows XP machine.  I'm
> following the steps as given at:
> http://www.gnu.org/software/ddd/
>
> i.e.
> The simplest way to build DDD is: 
> 	Unpack the DDD source distribution 
> 	Change into the ddd-version subdirectory 
> 	Type ./configure; make 
>
> I unpacked the DDD source distribution in my cygwin directory.  I changed to
> directory ddd-3.3.9.  I type ./configure.  It runs for awhile and I
> eventually get this error message:
> configure: error: The X11 library '-lX11' could not be found.
>                   Please use the configure options '--x-includes=DIR'
>                   and '--x-libraries=DIR' to specify the X location.
>                   See the files 'config.log' and 'ddd/config.log'
>                   for further diagnostics.
>
> And here is where I am stuck.  Can anyone tell me why I'm getting this and
> how to fix it?


This may be a dumb question, but you do have the X stuff installed,
don't you?  (I seem to remember that it's optional with Cygwin.)

That means that you'll need (at least):
+ Motif (libXm),
+ X Intrinsics (libXt)
+ X (libX11)

You'll probably need these too:
+ Athena (libXaw)
+ XPM (libXpm)
+ X miscellaneous utilities (libXmu)

Cheers,
Andrew.