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[Alfe <address@hidden>]

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