it runs "only on Cygwin," but nothing prevents you from running a classical windows batch file to execute a cygwin program from a windows command window or other launcher.
Again: you might want to wait for a reply from someone who has actually made this work. On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 10:49 AM, ALEX HUNTLEY <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Dan > > Thanks for the reply. > > If I compile on cygwin then does that mean the binary will only run on > cygwin? I really want to run as a normal windows app, like the old binary > distribution of GHDL. > > Cheers > > Alex > > 2009/12/15 Dan Clemmensen <[email protected]> >> >> I'm a Linux guy, so I'm not sure this will work, but in general Cygwin >> is a lot closer >> to a "real" POSIX environment (and specifically "linux-like" environment) >> than >> is mingw. I do use Cygwin, but I have not tried to build GHDL. >> http://www.cygwin.com >> Cygwin is trivial to install, but theGHDL makefile may need packages >> (e.g., ADA) >> that are not installed by default. >> >> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 10:32 AM, ALEX HUNTLEY <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > Hello everybody peeps >> > >> > I've been really scratching my head trying to compile the latest GHDL >> > source >> > code for windows. I've looked at Tristan's instructions and tried to >> > follow >> > them. I get stuck at the ./configure bit. This obviously doesn't work in >> > windows (as it's a bash script) so I tried downloading mingw and msys. I >> > couldn't get anything to run there - msys just flashed up for a fraction >> > of >> > a second and then crashed. >> > >> > So I then tried just taking all of the gcc sources and ghdl sources and >> > compiling them directly with gnatmake (actually using gps) - I got loads >> > of >> > errors about duplicate files but even after sorting that out I still >> > ended >> > up with errors because things weren't defined. >> > >> > I'm really a hardware rather than a software person so this is all a bit >> > alien but I'd really appreciate it anybody might be able to point me in >> > the >> > right direction. >> > >> > Cheers >> > >> > Alex >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Ghdl-discuss mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/ghdl-discuss >> > >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Ghdl-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/ghdl-discuss > > > _______________________________________________ > Ghdl-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/ghdl-discuss > > _______________________________________________ Ghdl-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/ghdl-discuss
