[Xastir] Problems installing Xastir

[Curt, WE7U]

On Fri, 30 Apr 2004, KK6RW wrote:

> I'm very new to Xastir so please bear with me. I am trying to install on a
> windows box using Cygwin. I have followed the README.win32 instructions but
> once I try to compile and install Xastir, I get many errors listed in the
> bash shell. A sample is at: http://kk6rw.com/xastirerr.png .
> This is the second time in this session I have tried to install and get
> Xastir running.
>
> Running on a P4-2.4MHz, 40MB HD.
>
> I have tried looking through the archives but I cannot find anything that
> seems to relate to the problems. I don't know if is Cygwin, the download of
> Xastir (seems to go fine) or what else it may be.

What you're seeing there is that the png library is not being found
by the linker, even though it is specified in the link line.  You've
compiled all of Xastir, and it is trying now to link together all of
the unresolved references between the .o files and the libraries in
order to create the final executable.

I suspect it is ImageMagick that has caused the "-lpng" option to be
brought in at that stage.  Check whether there's a png library that
you can load via the Cygwin setup.exe program.  If so, load it and
try compiling Xastir again.  You're almost there.  So close you
should be able to taste it.

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