RE: help building DDD on windows XP platform

[Mike Hansen]

Andrew,
Thank-you for your help.  I guess I didn't have all the Xlib stuff
installed.  There was a pakage in the X11 sub-directory setup program for
ddd.  I assumed if I checked this, all neccessary X11 stuff would be
installed.  This is apparently not the case.  I went back to the X11
sub-directory setup and installed any X11 lib/package that looked relevant.
After this, I was able to configure, make, and launch ddd.

thanks again,
Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Gaylard [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2004 7:20 AM
To: Mike Hansen
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: help building DDD on windows XP platform


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.