Re: [Gretl-users] How to compile Gretl for Cygwin

Thanks for persevering with this, and for posting your successful step-by-step recipe. I've added a few comments below. On Fri, 16 Mar 2012, Chloe wrote: You could avoid that by doing ./configure --prefix=/usr with the gtksourceview package. Also note that if you do export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig you are blanking out the default of /usr/lib/pkgconfig. You would be better to append /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig to PKG_CONFIG_PATH. It's not really the configure script that's not working, apparently it's libtool, which is called by configure, that is not doing the right thing on your cygwin system. There's really no reason to --enable-static, and there shouldn't be a need to --enable-shared since that is the default. It might be helpful to see your config.log after configuring gretl with just --enable-gtk3 (and perhaps --prefix=/usr if you don't want gretl under /usr/local). Presumably libtool must be having difficulty figuring out that cygwin's gcc is capable of building shared libraries. That was a bug in gretl's configure script, but it was fixed in CVS as of late January and will be OK in the 1.9.8 release. Allin Cottrell