Re: Problems compiling AbiWord-1.0.2 on Windows

From: Robert Wilhelm (robert@gaston.camelot.de)
Date: Thu Jun 20 2002 - 13:11:52 EDT

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    Hi Joaquin,

    This is an old bug in TRANSFORM_TO_DOS_PATH.
    Workaround is to place abiword sources outside the cygwin folders,
    e.g. directly under C:\.

    Robert

    On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 08:53:00AM -0700, Joaquin Cuenca Abela wrote:
    > Moron question of the day:
    >
    > Downloaded abiword-1.0.2.tar.gz file from sourceforge
    > (no cvs access here), and tried to compile it on
    > windows (diving makefile).
    >
    > It fails saying:
    >
    > fatal error C1083: Cannot open compiler generated
    > file:
    > 'C:\cygwinhome\jcuenca\abisource\abiword-1.0.2\abi\src\WIN32_1.3.10_i386_OBJ\obj\zlib\adler32.obj':
    > No such file or directory
    >
    > So somewhere it messes /cygdrive/c/home/jcuenca with
    > C:\cygwinhome\jcuenca
    >
    > Is it a known bug?
    >
    > My cygwin directory doesn't contains any spaces nor
    > funny characters...
    >
    > Cheers,
    >
    >
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    > Joaquin Cuenca Abela
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