> You will need autoconf and perl also. they are installed (see below)
>> PS in what directory do i need to install zlib and libiconv btw ? > in mingw tree. Copy the gnuwin32 packages in Mingw root directory and > under cygwin shell do: tar zxvf xxx.tar.gz ok > Why didn't you try my "ready" package? I hope that you could test > my procedure... i would like to reproduce it from scratch... thanks, edwin $ cygcheck -c Cygwin Package Information Package Version Status _update-info-dir 00390-1 OK alternatives 1.3.20a-2 OK ash 20040127-3 OK autoconf 2.59-2 OK autoconf2.1 2.13-1 OK autoconf2.5 2.59-2 OK automake1.4 1.4p6-2 OK automake1.6 1.6.3-2 OK automake1.7 1.7.9-2 OK automake1.8 1.8.5-2 OK automake1.9 1.9.6-1 OK base-files 3.7-1 OK base-passwd 2.2-1 OK bash 3.1-5 OK bzip2 1.0.3-1 OK coreutils 5.94-1 OK crypt 1.1-1 OK cygutils 1.3.0-1 OK cygwin 1.5.19-4 OK cygwin-doc 1.4-3 OK diffutils 2.8.7-1 OK editrights 1.01-1 OK expat 1.95.8-1 OK findutils 4.2.27-1 OK gawk 3.1.5-4 OK gdbm 1.8.3-7 OK gettext 0.14.5-1 OK gettext-devel 0.14.5-1 OK grep 2.5.1a-2 OK groff 1.18.1-2 OK gzip 1.3.5-1 OK less 381-1 OK libbz2_1 1.0.3-1 OK libcharset1 1.9.2-2 OK libdb4.2 4.2.52-1 OK libdb4.3 4.3.28-1 OK libgdbm 1.8.0-5 OK libgdbm-devel 1.8.3-7 OK libgdbm3 1.8.3-3 OK libgdbm4 1.8.3-7 OK libgettextpo0 0.14.5-1 OK libiconv 1.9.2-2 OK libiconv2 1.9.2-2 OK libintl 0.10.38-3 OK libintl1 0.10.40-1 OK libintl2 0.12.1-3 OK libintl3 0.14.5-1 OK libncurses5 5.2-1 OK libncurses6 5.2-8 OK libncurses7 5.3-4 OK libncurses8 5.5-2 OK libpcre0 6.3-1 OK libpopt0 1.6.4-4 OK libreadline4 4.1-2 OK libreadline5 4.3-5 OK libreadline6 5.1-5 OK login 1.9-7 OK m4 1.4.4-1 OK make 3.80-1 OK man 1.5p-1 OK mktemp 1.5-3 OK ncurses 5.5-2 OK perl 5.8.7-5 OK pkg-config 0.20-1 OK run 1.1.9-1 OK sed 4.1.5-1 OK tar 1.15.1-4 OK termcap 20050421-1 OK terminfo 5.5_20060323-1 OK texinfo 4.8-1 OK which 1.7-1 OK zlib 1.2.3-1 OK
