[Xastir-dev] Cygwin installation

[Henk de Groot]

Hello Curt and others,

Not so long ago I got my ADSL link and for the first time I try to get 
Cygwin running. Up to now no problems, the instructions are very clear.

I stumbled on a remark about lcms:

<quote>
"LittleCMS has reached release 1.12 (and only 1.11 and 1.12 are
available on their website).  Apparently, after 1.10, the "all"
target is gone, so you need to go through the ./configure routine.
However, in my cygwin install, the configure routine fails on the C
preprocessor sanity check.  Google provided the 1.10 release, so the
instructions still work...  but follow them "literally.""
-- Steve Peters, N1TYE
</quote>

I got the same error and looked a bit into it. It turns out that for this 
to work, the package "gcc-c++: GCC C++ compiler" needs to be installed. At 
least then the configuration part of LittleCMS release 1.12 works and 
"make" + "make install" does not report problems. I have not checked if it 
is functional though, but I guess so.

Kind regards,

Henk - PE1DNN.