I tried pkgsrc on Cygwin today and while it works, it is poorly documented and many packages fail to build, notably, devel/libtool-base, which is needed by devel/flex, which is needed by several packages I tried. I can install the same version of libtool in Cygwin but I do not know how to force use of it.

A few tips:

At a minimum you will want to install the gcc-core and libgcc1 packages in Cygwin.

From the command line: ./setup-x86.exe -q -P gcc-core libgcc1

Download and extract the pkgsrc tree as per the documentation and run the bootstrap script. I suggest you save the output with the script(1) command.

You will want to add these paths to /etc/profile (one is for Cygwin itself):

if [ ${CYGWIN_NOWINPATH-addwinpath} = "addwinpath" ] ; then
PATH="/usr/pkg/bin:/usr/pkg/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin${PATH:+:${PATH}}"
else
PATH="/usr/pkg/bin:/usr/pkg/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin"
fi

Log in again to receive the correct paths and you should be able to enter a specific package and type "bmake", rather than the traditional "make" and note that make from Cygwin will fail.

That said, could someone please look at building devel/libtool-base ?

Thanks!

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