[PPL-devel] Build PPL under cygwin fails

[Michael Classen]

On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Matthias Hofmann
<matthias.hofmann at tu-dortmund.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> due to configure, the PPL build fails under cygwin with the following
> error message:
>
> checking for ld used by GCC... /usr/i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld.exe
> checking if the linker (/usr/i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld.exe) is GNU ld... yes
> checking for shared library run path origin... done
> checking how to link with libgmp... /usr/gmp/lib/libgmp.a
> checking how to link with libgmpxx... /usr/gmp/lib/libgmpxx.a
> /usr/gmp/lib/libgm
> p.a
> checking for the GMP library version 4.1.3 or above... no
> configure: error: Cannot find GMP version 4.1.3 or higher.
> GMP is the GNU Multi-Precision library:
> see http://www.swox.com/gmp/ for more information.
> When compiling the GMP library, do not forget to enable the C++ interface:
> add --enable-cxx to the configuration options.
>
> I have build and installed gmp-5.0.1 into the directory /usr/gmp
> previously and compiled it with --enable-cxx.
>
> Any solutions or ideas?

My first idea lately in cases like this, is to check if the libraries
are 32bit or 64bit and see if all is compatible... look in the
config.log to see more details about what went wrong.

Michael