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[Khadga Karki <address@hidden>]

The problem probably is not with your windows setting for cygwin. You 
cannot compile texmacs from source without an acceptable C compiler in 
cygwin. Perhaps you should fix that problem first.

Try installing gcc as shown in this web page:
http://www.eecg.utoronto.ca/~aamodt/ece242/cygwin.html

Best


address@hidden wrote:
>  
>  
> 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 <mailto: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 
>  

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