Hi Richard,
TeXmacs is made for Unix-like systems; therefore, to get it running on Windows systems, we have to install cygwin which is a kind of a Unix-Emulation for Windows. This is the reason why the error messages you get are not typical Windows-style but rather Unix style. In detail:
>
address@hidden wrote:
>> I have just installed cygwin. And it seems to work.
>> Then i have loaded TeXmacs-1.0.7-src from the GNU Website. I saved it in
>> cygdrive/c/tmp/
>> >> The operation
>> >> tar -zxvf TeXmacs-1.0;7-src.tar.gz
>> >> worked : it made a lot of files (flooding the cygwin window).
>> >> Then i type
>> >> cd TeXmacs-1.0.7-src
>> >> and it works : we are now in cygdrive/c/tmp/TeXmacs-1.0.7-src, and i >> type
>> >> ./configure
./configure tries to prepare the build scripts to the helpers you have installed. Several helpers are needed to build TeXmacs, most prominently a compiler, but it does not have to be one specific; it can be one of
several. The ./configure tries to find out which helpers are installed and prepares the build scripts so that they will deal with the installed helpers.
>> and here is the result :
>> <<
>> checking build system type... i686-pc-cygwin
>> checking host system type... i686-pc-cygwin
Just informational output: Your system is a "Unix" of type i686-pc-cygwin ;-)
>>
checking for gcc... no
>> checking for cc... no
>>
checking for cl.exe... no
>> configure: error: in 'cygdrive/c/tmp/TeXmacs-1.0.7-src' :
>> configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
No such helper found (in this case the C compiler): This is a reason for ./configure to abort. The mentioned $PATH is what Windows users call %PATH%; this is a list of directories in which executables are searched for by the system. In the cygwin window you can type 'echo $PATH' to find out what yours is set to (but this won't help you).
But anyway, in none of these directories is a compiler ./configure can handle, so as
Khadga Karki
wrote:
> Try installing
gcc first.
Do that. Try ./configure again then. See what helper is missing next. Come back here if you have no clue ;-) Good luck.
Alfe