Question

I’m trying to compile a library using a Unix shell. I’m running Cygwin on Windows. The install instructions for the library state:

1. cd' to the directory containing the package's source code and type
./configure’ to configure the package for your system. If you’re
   using csh' on an old version of System V, you might need to type
sh ./configure’ instead to prevent csh' from trying to execute
configure’ itself.

   Running `configure’ takes awhile. While running, it prints some
   messages telling which features it is checking for.

2. Type `make’ to compile the package.

<… MORE INSTRUCTIONS FOLLOW …>

So, I’ve placed the folder containing the library source into my Cygwin directory, cd‘ed to the folder, and run ./configure. This all appears to work fine, but the ‘make’ command produces the following output:

$ make
make  all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/liblo-0.26'
Making all in src
make[2]: Entering directory `/liblo-0.26/src'
Making all in .
make[3]: Entering directory `/liblo-0.26/src'
/bin/bash ../libtool --tag=CC   --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I..    -
Wall -I.. -g -O2 -MT liblo_la-address.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/liblo_la-address.Tpo
-c -o liblo_la-address.lo `test -f 'address.c' || echo './'`address.c
libtool: compile:  gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -Wall -I.. -g -O2 -MT liblo_la-a
ddress.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/liblo_la-address.Tpo -c address.c  -DDLL_EXPORT -DPI
C -o .libs/liblo_la-address.o
In file included from lo_types_internal.h:33,
                 from address.c:37:
../lo/lo_osc_types.h:32:20: stdint.h: No such file or directory
In file included from address.c:37:
lo_types_internal.h:89: field `addr' has incomplete type
lo_types_internal.h:98: confused by earlier errors, bailing out
make[3]: *** [liblo_la-address.lo] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/liblo-0.26/src'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/liblo-0.26/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/liblo-0.26'
make: *** [all] Error 2

What am I doing wrong? Happy to provide more info – but I’m new to Unix shell (as you can probably tell…)

Answer 1

The error is that the header file stdint.h is not found.

stdint.h is a new header, standardized in C99 (The version published in 1999 of the C standard.) It could be that your UNIX does not have it. But cygwin should be recent and have it.

Does your cygwin installation have the C library header files installed?