[Monotone-devel] Re: cygwin and monotone

[Lapo Luchini]

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Matthew Gregan wrote:
>>Since a few weeks cygwin has got a precompiled boost package, so it
>>should be possible to compile monotone under cygwin.
> You could before, you just had to build Boost first.

Ehm, Yes. What I meant was: it should be now possible to have an
official cygwin pre-compiled package of it ;-)

> boost_unit_test_framework is only required for the unit tests.  I've
> committed a change to configure.ac in
> 65f85490cb920bc9f9e2886b48b5a00f38d37fea that makes a missing
> unit_test_framework library a non-fatal error.  With this change, monotone
> builds without any problems under a recent install of Cygwin.

Ohh, nice, thanks. I'll take a look at it.

> Unfortunately, the resulting binary crashes immediately.  I suspect this
> will be due to a static initialization problem (we've seen these before on
> different platforms when doing ports of monotone), but I haven't had time to
> dig into it yet.

Very unfortunate. But I hope I (and maybe some other cygwin-user) can
find the time take a look at it soon.

  Lapo

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