RE: [Swarm-Support] Help getting started

[master-kage]

Ahh, thanks for explaining that, it makes sense now. However, this leads me to a new issue. Cygwin has now unzipped the file into the C:\cygwin\home\Stephen folder, making a new folder called "heatbug-block", and now the next step the website says here:
 
http://www.swarm.org/index.php?title=Swarm:_applications
 
is to "Change directories into the newly unzipped directory of source code (in a Linux terminal window or, if using Windows, in Cygwin)."
Would I change directories to "/cygdrive/c/cygwin/home/Stephen" or "/cygdrive/c/cygwin/home/Stephen/heatbug-block", or a third option that hasn't occurred to me? Either way, when I try to carry out the third step and compile the program by entering "make" I get this error:
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.

>From the website, that sounds like it may be that SWARMHOME is not set correctly, but I have checked and I have made an environmental variable called SWARMHOME with the value "C:\Cygwin\usr"
 
Again, thank you to everyone who has given me advice with this.

> A shell running with Cygwin has a notion of a current directory. To
> see where that is, you can run the command:
>
> cygpath -w `pwd`
>
> ..or simply
>
> pwd
>
> To explain the difference, first note that Cygwin is a software package
> that aims to is provide a Unix like environment. Unix doesn't use
> backslashes for directory separators, like on Windows, nor does it have
> a notion of `drives'. Conversely, Windows doesn't have a notion of root
> filesystem. A windows path like "X:\" maps to a path like
> "/cygdrive/X" in Cygwin,
> where "X" is a Windows drive, typically "C". Further, there are
> `mounts' to make various Windows drives look like they live as a part of
> a single filesystem. Type "mount" to see what those are on your Cygwin
> install
>
> The filename you give to `tar' should be the .tar.gz file you download,
> in the current directory as reported above, or else a full Unix-style
> path, of the kind reported by `pwd' as opposed to the kind reported by
> the first command. For example, if you downloaded to a Windows XP
> Desktop, something like:
>
> tar xzf /cygdrive/c/Documents And Settings/yourName/<filename>
>
> Which will unpack filename into your current directory (again as
> reported by `pwd').
>
> Marcus
>
>
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