[BRLTTY] Help with building brltty in Cygwin
Patricia Fraser
pfraser at harpo.com.pl
Thu Aug 11 03:15:08 EDT 2011
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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