Hi Folks, Need a little help here. I have a 32--bit machine with Windows XP that I would like to install MEEP on. The Cygwin installation seems to have gone ok; there were no error messages. I installed every package in Devel. Then I attempted to install HDF5, and it gives me a compiler error.
I found the very helpful instructions here: Meep MPB, Harminv on Cygwin<http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.science.electromagnetism.meep.general/3428> As I said, Cygwin installation went smoothly, I downloaded from cygwin.mirrors.hoobly.com. I set the environmental variables as in step 1, and moved on to step 2, installing H5utils, and got as far as: 2.5 ./configure --prefix=/usr/local checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /usr/bin/mkdir -p checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output file name... a.exe checking whether the C compiler works... configure: error: in `/home/Lizz/h5utils-1.12.1': configure: error: cannot run C compiled programs. If you meant to cross compile, use `--host'. See `config.log' for more details. Here's the config.log output: configure:2769: checking for C compiler default output file name configure:2791: gcc -I/usr/local/include -L/usr/local/lib conftest.c >&5 configure:2795: $? = 0 configure:2833: result: a.exe configure:2852: checking whether the C compiler works configure:2862: ./a.exe ./configure: line 2864: ./a.exe: No such file or directory configure:2866: $? = 127 configure:2873: error: in `/home/Lizz/h5utils-1.12.1': configure:2877: error: cannot run C compiled programs. If you meant to cross compile, use `--host'. That was not what I had hoped for. I decided to skip ahead and try installing HDF5. The same error occured, with the same error message. With two messages about the compiler, I tried reinstalling GCC according to these instructions: How to install a new version of GCC<http://cygwin.wikia.com/wiki/How_to_install_a_newer_version_of_GCC> Prerequisites and environment variables were all set already, I followed the instructions at the bottom of the page starting with installing GMP. I got to the ./configure step, and it hangs, with the following message: checking build system type... And then I usually have to do a hard restart to get the job to stop. I'm at a loss here. What else can I try? Thanks, everyone.
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