Anyone familiar with cgywin??

louise1234_2

I am having problems installing LAPACK onto a windows machine, and have downloaded cgywin as recommended.

Now it says to type 'make' and LAPACK will install, but I'm getting 'make' is not a recognised command, even though I'm in the correct folder.

Anyone familiar or able to offer any wisdom??

jma_4

I can try and help - I'm familiar enough to spell the name correctly

Sounds like a path problem; did you run the bash shell correctly? Click the Start button, Programs and find the Cygwin shortcut. Click the 'Cygwin Bash Shell' link. Hopefully, if installed correctly, it'll start a command line prompt which will show your user_name@machine.

Right. make is a script that should be included with the download you're trying to run. Basically, you want to 'cd' to the directory you installed/unpacked the software. If you go there in Windows Explorer, have a look for the 'make' file; you want to be in the same place. Cygwin is Windows friendly, to an extent, and you can just type...

'cd <full path to your install>'

...minus the quotes. You also have to use '/' instead of '\'. Lets say 'make' is in c:\temp, you'd type 'cd c:/temp'. This should show you something like:

your_user_name@your_machine /cygdrive/c/temp
$

Once there, type 'make' and hopefully it should run the necessary gubbins to build the software.....

miketebb

You may not have installed all the components.

have a look here.

[url] http://cygwin.com/faq/ [/url]

Mike.

louise1234_2

Thanks for your reply - I can't even spell it right!

I have previously done all you have suggested, as the installation said.

There is a file called make.inc & one called makefile is the .inc a script file?? I think this may be the problem??

The instructions are referring to unix, so are there any alterations I need to make for using cygwin & windows??

I cannot seem to find any help for this anywhere, so I am presuming I am doing something silly!

louise1234_2

Miketebb - I think I haven't installed make....i just went for default.

I need to learn to read these pages rather than hit download now!

jma_4

make is a tool included in the path somewhere, it reads the 'makefile' and builds the software. Like miketebb, you're probably missing components. Easiest way to add 'em (check the FAQ first!) is to run the installer again and select the missing bits.

blinky

A full install of cygwin is huge. I think by default a lot of the developing / compiling tools are missing.

It's a great tool - it basically gives you a Unix shell in Windows, so you get all the nice Unix commands.

Just noticed this in the FAQ

You will want to download the "full" version of cygwin, which includes compilers, shells, make, etc. You will need to download the fortran compiler separately.