On 8 Feb 02, Jason E. Stewart writes: > "John Utz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > 1. Any reason why this shouldnt build/run on a win2kbox with cygwin and > > the latest activestate perl ( i am pretty sure that's 5.6.1 or so )? > > given a choice, i tend to prefer unix. but since the expensive part > > of this project is a windows app, and it's all supposed to be on one > > box, i am sorta stuck. > > I am led to believe that it is now possible to compile Xerces-C on > cygwin. Once upon a time it was not. > > However, if you compile Xerces under cygwin wit g++, you'll have to > compile perl with g++ as well - there's no standard ABI for C++, so > all your code has to be compiled using the same compiler. ActiveState > uses VC++.
Cygwin Setup now (optionally) includes perl. Presumably you'd have better chance of success with that. I haven't tried it myself. Our four unix platforms is challenging enough for me at the moment... Cheers, David (Cygwin FAQ maintainer) ------------------------------------------------------------------- David Starks-Browning | [EMAIL PROTECTED] EMBL Outstation -- | The European Bioinformatics Institute | Wellcome Trust Genome Campus | tel: +44 (1223) 494 616 Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SD, UK | fax: +44 (1223) 494 468 ------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
