[BRLTTY] Help with building brltty in Cygwin

[Patricia Fraser]

Hi Lee,

On 10/08/2011 19:57, Lee Maschmeyer wrote:
> Hi Patricia,
>
> People have different ways of dealing with Cygwin. My philosophy is to
> try to make it act as nearly like Linux as possible. So:
>
> I haven't done a Cygwin build in a month but I think
> things are still the same.
>
> I've never used relocatable install. I don't use it on Linux and
> didn't on Cygwin.
>
> I had best luck using GCC 3 and --disable-caml-bindings.
>
> So, here's the way I did it. This is off the top of my head and may
> contain minor grammar problems but this is basically right:
>
> set-gcc-default-3.sh # This script is in /bin in case it's not marked executable
>
> ./autogen&&  ./configure --disable-caml-bindings&&  make
>
> killall brltty
>
> make install&&  brltty

Thanks, I'll try that! I'm currently playing with ways to get Cygwin to 
see where java is on the system, since that also seems to be a problem.

I guess relocatable install isn't really needed for my testing purposes, 
but at some point I'd like to build a win version that can be released 8-).

Cheers!

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