Newby: getting started on Win32 compilation

[John Coonrod]

I've installed the newest cygwin including all the development software, and have downloaded the whole tarball to /usr/src/abiword-1.1.3

I went into /usr/src/abiword-1.1.3/abi and issued the command ./configure

everything was cool!

when I then issued the command make I got the following:

$ make
Building AbiSuite with [ABI_ROOT=/usr/src/abiword-1.1.3/abi]
make ABI_ROOT=/usr/src/abiword-1.1.3/abi -C src
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/abiword-1.1.3/abi/src'
Building on [WIN32] with [LicensedTrademarks:Off Debug:Off BiDi:LTR Pango:Off XM
L:expat Pspell:Off Scripting:Off].
make  ABI_ROOT=/usr/src/abiword-1.1.3/abi -C config build
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/abiword-1.1.3/abi/src/config'
Building on [WIN32] with [LicensedTrademarks:Off Debug:Off BiDi:LTR Pango:Off XM
L:expat Pspell:Off Scripting:Off].
make  ABI_ROOT=/usr/src/abiword-1.1.3/abi -C require build
make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/abiword-1.1.3/abi/src/config/require'
Building on [WIN32] with [LicensedTrademarks:Off Debug:Off BiDi:LTR Pango:Off XM
L:expat Pspell:Off Scripting:Off].
make  ABI_ROOT=/usr/src/abiword-1.1.3/abi -C xp build
make[4]: Entering directory `/usr/src/abiword-1.1.3/abi/src/config/require/xp'
Building on [WIN32] with [LicensedTrademarks:Off Debug:Off BiDi:LTR Pango:Off XM
L:expat Pspell:Off Scripting:Off].
Found expat in peer directory
make[5]: Entering directory `/usr/src/abiword-1.1.3/expat'
Building on [WIN32] with [LicensedTrademarks:Off Debug:Off BiDi:LTR Pango:Off XM
L:expat Pspell:Off Scripting:Off].
make -f Makefile.abi ABI_ROOT=/usr/src/abiword-1.1.3/abi -C lib build
make[6]: Entering directory `/usr/src/abiword-1.1.3/expat/lib'
Building on [WIN32] with [LicensedTrademarks:Off Debug:Off BiDi:LTR Pango:Off XM
L:expat Pspell:Off Scripting:Off].
make[6]: *** [/usr/src/abiword-1.1.3/abi/src/WIN32_1.3.19_i386_OBJ/obj/expat/xml
parse.obj] Error 255
make[6]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/abiword-1.1.3/expat/lib'
make[5]: *** [build] Error 2
make[5]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/abiword-1.1.3/expat'
make[4]: *** [_EXPAT_] Error 2
make[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/abiword-1.1.3/abi/src/config/require/xp'
make[3]: *** [build] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/abiword-1.1.3/abi/src/config/require'
make[2]: *** [build] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/abiword-1.1.3/abi/src/config'
make[1]: *** [build] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/abiword-1.1.3/abi/src'
make: *** [compile] Error 2

Is this a problem with the source code itself, or something I'm doing wrong?

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Dr. John Coonrod, Vice President, The Hunger Project
15 East 26th Street, New York, NY 10010, www.thp.org