Hi Dan

Thanks for the reply.

If I compile on cygwin then does that mean the binary will only run on
cygwin? I really want to run as a normal windows app, like the old binary
distribution of GHDL.

Cheers

Alex

2009/12/15 Dan Clemmensen <[email protected]>

> I'm a Linux guy, so I'm not sure this will work, but in general Cygwin
> is a lot closer
> to a "real" POSIX environment (and specifically "linux-like" environment)
> than
> is mingw. I do use Cygwin, but I have not tried to build GHDL.
>   http://www.cygwin.com
> Cygwin is trivial to install, but theGHDL makefile may need packages (e.g.,
> ADA)
> that are not installed by default.
>
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 10:32 AM, ALEX HUNTLEY <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Hello everybody peeps
> >
> > I've been really scratching my head trying to compile the latest GHDL
> source
> > code for windows. I've looked at Tristan's instructions and tried to
> follow
> > them. I get stuck at the ./configure bit. This obviously doesn't work in
> > windows (as it's a bash script) so I tried downloading mingw and msys. I
> > couldn't get anything to run there - msys just flashed up for a fraction
> of
> > a second and then crashed.
> >
> > So I then tried just taking all of the gcc sources and ghdl sources and
> > compiling them directly with gnatmake (actually using gps) - I got loads
> of
> > errors about duplicate files but even after sorting that out I still
> ended
> > up with errors because things weren't defined.
> >
> > I'm really a hardware rather than a software person so this is all a bit
> > alien but I'd really appreciate it anybody might be able to point me in
> the
> > right direction.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Alex
> >
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