Re: Compiling problem

2009-08-15 Thread Bob Cowdery
David I run the other way around at the moment, Vista VM under Ubuntu. For production it's a definite possibility to do as you say but there is I/O involved that may not work too great on a VM so a lot of testing is required and timescales are as usual too short. Regards Bob David Christens

Re: Compiling problem

2009-08-15 Thread Bob Cowdery
Dave Thank you very much. I shall not forget -v now. It told me straight away that I had stupidly forgotten to install the cygwin gcc but did have MinGW gcc on the path which of course only understands Windows paths. Regards Bob Dave Korn wrote: Bob Cowdery wrote: Either I'm too impatie

RE: Compiling problem

2009-08-15 Thread David Christensen
Bob Cowdery wrote: > My end game was to install Cython and compile up some Python stuff > which was written on Linux but needs to run on Windows. There are lots > of shell scripts involved and the complete system does not lend itself > to running native, hence the short-term need to run under Cy

Re: Compiling problem

2009-08-15 Thread Dave Korn
Bob Cowdery wrote: > Either I'm too impatient, the question is too trivial for people to > bother with or too complex or lacking information to be answerable. As > I've not posted to this group before and have hardly used Cygwin I've no > idea which of the above is true. Anybody... please. Compl

Re: Compiling problem

2009-08-15 Thread Bob Cowdery
Either I'm too impatient, the question is too trivial for people to bother with or too complex or lacking information to be answerable. As I've not posted to this group before and have hardly used Cygwin I've no idea which of the above is true. Anybody... please. Bob Bob Cowdery wrote: Hi I