problems compiling pspp in cygwin

[unknown-1]

>I tried to follow a howto from "unknown-1", who recently made a cygwin
>windows port of pspp available

Nice so somebody is reading it. :-)

But as Jason already mentioned, it is only necessary if you want to studie how I did it. If that is not your goal, download the latest version, unzip and start the setup.exe.

However if you are studying the howto:
The xdamage is a part of "xorg-x11-bin-dlls". But I had initially a problem with it too. Don't remember what it was, but after installing it explicite this problem was solved.

Be carefull when you install it from cygwin. Download it to a local directory and after that install it from that local directory. If you don't follow this, the cygwin-port packages are "updated" to the cygwin version and you can start your work again.

If it is your intention to maintain a windows port of PSPP, at the moment I think Mingw would be a better choice. However I did'nt succeed yet in getting PSPP compiled on Mingw. I am still studying this when time permits.

Have fun

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[flxms]

Hi Jason,

thank you for your answer! Of course the way you described is the easiest and most efficient in case one is just interested in running PSPP on Windows (Thanx a lot to unknown-1!!!) In my case I already have a quite huge cygwin installed, which I use for compiling other Software (mostly bioinformatic tools) and because of the Xserver, gwak, sed, etc. which I really miss on Windows.

Unfortunately I can confirm, that the package provided by unknown-1 is not compatible with an already installed cygwin (at least not out of the box; I tested it :-().

So I tried to compile it the way unknown-1 described it. Further more I am interested in redistributing a custom cygwin image including other useful bioinformatics tools. So I guess I have to do it the hard way...

Best regards,
Felix

> On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 11:57:54PM +0200, Felix Mueller-Sarnowski wrote:
> > I tried to follow a howto from "unknown-1", who recently made a cygwin  
> > windows port of pspp available  
> > (http://rapidshare.de/files/39660548/*PSPP*-0.6.0.RC2-7-Setup.zip.html 
> > <http://rapidshare.de/files/39660548/PSPP-0.6.0.RC2-7-Setup.zip.html>).  
> > Here is an excerpt of the howto I followed:
> >
> > *1.  For development use, **Install Cygwin and update with Cygwin-Ports *
> >...
>
> I haven't done much with the Windows port except install and test it, so
> I don't know everything about it. But it looks like you tried to install
> a development version, which is harder to work with and probably not what
> you want.
>
> If you just want a running installation of pspp 0.6.0 on a Windows machine,
> you should be able to just unzip the archive and double-click on setup.exe,
> then follow the directions for a straightforward installation. That's what
> I did, and I never had to deal with ./configure and make.
>
> -Jason
>
> --
> jstover@...
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>

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