On 12/26/05, jerry gay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > cygwin *should* compile parrot just fine. the last report i see on > http://smoke.parrotcode.org/smoke/ for i386-cygwin-gcc is from r10487, > which is a few weeks old, though. can any other cygwin users confirm > peter's report? there have been some significant changes to the config > system lately, these may have broken your platform.
The core parrot VM builds on cygwin, but dynclasses don't link. To help the build along, a quick hack such as 'echo all: > src/dynclasses/Makefile' can help it along. dynclasses are nice, but don't prevent parrot being pretty functional on cygwin. As such, we might want to skip that part of the build until this is sorted. >> ... >> > > OR > > > > work to make Cygwin work (e.g. to Configure.pl Parrot's Makefile) > > > if it's failing in cygwin, this is the best fix. I've been revisiting the cygwin build a few times over the last year to see if I can get dynclasses working, and I can't see an alternative to building libparrot as a DLL, linking the dynclasses against this DLL (or a .dll.a stub) and a smalish tweak to the config_string functionality. We've currenly got: Cygwin build parent https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=36540 dynclasses are not builidng on Cygwin https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=36836 Relaxing parrot dependency on parrot_config https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=37303 (The patch has regressed after recent changes) There's also a thread "Better support for libparrot.so" which will allow the libparrot.dll to be built cleanly on cygwin This code isn't yet associated with any particular bug Nick
