I installed openssl-devel and was able to successfully compile fossil in
Cygwin with a simple "make" command, no Makefile modifications necessary.

Would it be easy to add a check for openssl-devel to the build process to
provide a more helpful error message than the compile error?


On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 3:48 PM, Tomek Kott <tkott.s...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I think as long as you have the development versions of libssl installed on
> your cygwin, you should be set. I'll try to remember to try it at home
> myself, and report back.
>
> Tomek
>
>
> 2011/6/28 Lluís Batlle i Rossell <virik...@gmail.com>
>
>> On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 08:38:28AM -0700, Matt Welland wrote:
>> > Are you using fossil compiled for cygwin or fossil compiled for windows?
>> If
>> > the later then internally it will not know about cygwin paths and may
>> not be
>> > able to launch cygwin binaries (not sure on that one, haven't tested
>> it).
>>
>> I specially build fossil on cygwin (there is no distributed cygwin binary
>> on
>> fossil-scm.org), in order to have terminal capabilities. I like the rxvt
>> terminal vim to be launched on commit, and it only works with a
>> cygwin-aware
>> fossil. That is, fossil built on cygwin.
>>
>> It's trivial to build there.
>>
>> > On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 8:34 AM, Brian Cottingham <spiffyt...@gmail.com
>> >wrote:
>> >
>> > > I'm using Fossil from a Cygwin terminal and I can't get the gdiff
>> command
>> > > to work with vimdiff. I've tried setting gdiff-command to "vimdiff"
>> but
>> > > running "fossil gdiff" I get "'vimdiff' is not recognized as an
>> internal or
>> > > external command". I tried setting the command to "/usr/bin/vimdiff"
>> but I
>> > > get "The system cannot find the path specified". vimdiff is definitely
>> in my
>> > > $PATH. What am I doing wrong?
>> > >
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