[zile-devel] Zile 2.0.7 and 2.2beta2 dosen't compile on Cygwin

[Johan Sjöberg]

Hi,
I tryed to compile Zile 2.0.7 and 2.2beta2 on cygwin_nt-5.1 (2005-07-02
20:30) with little success. But first; in INSTALL it say:

  Special note for Cygwin users: If you are trying compiling Zile with
  cygwin, please read question 3.3 of the FAQ (found in the `etc'
  subdirectory).

etc is corrected to doc in CVS, but there is no 3.x or cygwin related notes in doc/FAQ.

Now, this is what I get when I try to compile:

$ make
make  all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/js/src/zile'
Making all in doc
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/js/src/zile/doc'
make[2]: *** No rule to make target `mkdoc', needed by `AUTODOC'.  Stop.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/js/src/zile/doc'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/js/src/zile'
make: *** [all] Error 2
$

so I modified this in doc/Makefile from:

AUTODOC: $(AUTODOCSRCS) mkdoc
        ./mkdoc $(AUTODOCSRCS) >AUTODOC

to:

AUTODOC: $(AUTODOCSRCS) mkdoc$(EXEEXT_FOR_BUILD)
        ./mkdoc$(EXEEXT_FOR_BUILD) $(AUTODOCSRCS) >AUTODOC


After this make and make install worked but not zile:

$ zile
----- *scratch*          ()--L1--C0--All----------------------------------------
Welcome to Zile!  For help type `C-h h'Zile 2.2beta2Copyright (C) 1997-2004 Sand
ro Sigala <address@hidden>Copyright (C) 2003-2004 David A. Capello <address@hidden
s.sourceforge.net>Copyright (C) 2003-2005 Reuben Thomas <address@hidden>Type `C-x
C-c' to exit Zile.Type `C-h h' for help; `C-x u; to undo changes.Type `C-h C-d'
for information on getting the latest version.Type `C-h t' for a tutorial on usi
ng Zile.Type `C-h s' for a sample configuration file.Type `C-g' at any time to c
ancel the current operation.`C-x' means hold the CTRL key while typing the chara
cter `x'.`M-x' means hold the META or ALT key down while typing `x'.If there is
no META or ALT key, instead press and releasethe ESC key and then type `x'.Combi
nations like `C-h h' mean first press `C-h', then `h'.assertion "size > 0" faile
d: file "zmalloc.c", line 42
Aborted (core dumped)
$

By the way, on http://sourceforge.net/projects/zile/ it incorrectly states that Zile is under a BSD License.

Thanks for a great program.

- Johan