On 2012-4-7 16:12, marco atzeri wrote:
On 4/7/2012 9:40 AM, De-Jian Zhao wrote:
Dear all,
I noticed that there is a command - rpm - under Cygwin 1.7. Does that
mean RPM packages can be installed into Cygwin?
I tried to install ncbi-blast-2.2.26+-3.i686.rpm (see:
ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast/executables/blast+/LATEST/ ) into
Cygwin 1.7.13 with the command "install -i
ncbi-blast-2.2.26+-3.i686.rpm". However, error message appeared as
below. I tried to search for the missing libs using the setup.exe of
Cygwin. It seems that some of them were not present, such as libc.so.6,
libdl.so.2, libm.so.6, libnsl.so.1, and libz.so.1. Where can I get these
libs? Thanks!
$ rpm -i ncbi-blast-2.2.26+-3.i686.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
/usr/bin/perl is needed by ncbi-blast-2.2.26+-3
libbz2.so.1 is needed by ncbi-blast-2.2.26+-3
libc.so.6 is needed by ncbi-blast-2.2.26+-3
{cut]
...isn't it?
from cygwin website (first page):
Cygwin is not:
- a way to run native Linux apps on Windows. You must rebuild your
application
from source if you want it to run on Windows.
- a way to magically make native Windows apps aware of UNIX®
functionality like
signals, ptys, etc. Again, you need to build your apps from
source if you want
to take advantage of Cygwin functionality.
Regards
Marco
Thanks, Marco. I was not trying to run a native linux apps, and instead
tried to rebuild the app from source. The BLAST software provides the
Build.sh and Check.sh scripts under the dirctory of
ncbi-blast-2.2.26+-src.tar\ncbi-blast-2.2.26+-src\c++\compilers\cygwin\.
So I think it is possible to run the software under cygwin. However, the
compilation stopped at "checking for python", even if python was
installed. That's to say, I installed the latest python and the
compilation could find it, but the compilation tried to search for
python2.3 and 2.4 further, and stopped when searching for 2.4.
What I am concern is that whether the i686.rpm indicates it is prepared
for cygwin. As you know, when you run "uname -smo" , you can get
something like this "CYGWIN_NT-5.1 i686 Cygwin". I think the package
ncbi-blast-2.2.26+-3.i686.rpm is for Cygwin. Is that right? Has anyone
ever succeeded in installing a RPM package into cygwin using "rpm -i *rpm"?
Regards
Dejian
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