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Thank you Kadga and Alfe.

 

Installing gcc seems to be difficult. So before i do it i have to tell you something. When i have installed cygwin (following http://www.texmacs.org/tmweb/download/cygwin.en.html) i didn't execute the operation #5 below

 

5. Put c:\cygwin at the start of the PATH environment variable and 127.0.0.1:0.0 for DISPLAY in the menu Start->Control Panel->System->Advanced->Environment variables.

 

Actually i don't know what it means... It may be the cause of my compilation problem... I work in french, so i am not sure what "Control Panel" is. I don't find "System"...

 

I used to work with WinTeXmacs but i wanted to install the "cygwin TeXmacs" in my new computer to have the recent version of TeXmacs... It seems to be difficult... If #5 does not have to see with my gcc problem i will try to install gcc (even if i am quite afraid with it)...

 

Thank you

 

Richard

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 

-----E-mail d'origine-----
De : Alfe <address@hidden>
A : address@hidden
Envoyé le : Mercredi, 14 Avril 2010 23:00
Sujet : Re: [TeXmacs] Problem with my new installation

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