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On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Paul Russell wrote: > Slam, hit the wall... Hopefully not brick... That must hurt... > I'm mostly an embedded systems developer, and have this problem compiling > UNIX/LINUX packages for use in Windows (GVSGraph... GNU Stuff...) . I'm > just not set up for it and don't know how to get started, even though I > try now and again. Most of these packages have been compiled under > Windows in older versions, so it must be possible. They tend to have > ./configure shell scripts that don't work "out of the box" under Windows. > If someone could explain what I need to do to get setup for this, or where > there is a reasonable web page explaining the procedure, I'll happily try > to compile and release Windows Binaries. I have access to a system with > Microsoft VS.Net installed on Win2000. Or maybe I should use the GNU > compiler? How to make that work under Windows? I've used Cygwin and Mingw some time ago. Both seem to be able to compile properly. Please note that you need flex and bison in these installations. -- Greetings Bertho