On Thursday 03 January 2002 05:22 pm, Gareth Pearce wrote: > ummm could it possibly be that the dll is in ruby\bin - and your lib path > on the compile line is ruby\lib ? - but then the name cygwin-16.dll seems > wrong so maybe you typed that little snippit out incorrectly. Thanks for the reply, Gareth. I got it to compile by copying cygwin-ruby16.dll to the cwd (/pkg/bdb-0.2.7/src). Why it expected to find it there, I don't know. I tried setting shortcuts to the dll, but they don't work. I've never built a make file but I think I'm beginning to see some patterns: a '-L<dir>' seems to preceed several '-l<file>' constructs. I assume that the lower case L names a needed file and the upper case L names the directory in which the linker expects to find them. Is that correct? > > Gareth > > >Even as a Linux user, I probably stay as confused about compiling > >under cygwin as some windows users. I cannot figure out just > >where the linker is looking to find cygwin-ruby16. The only > >cygwin-ruby16 on my Win2k machine is D:\ruby\bin\cygwin-16.dll. > >I installed Ruby1.6.5 from the executable installer into > >D:\ruby. I also have cygwin installed in D:\cygwin. I have tried > >several variations of the --with-db-* options and have moved > >shortcuts of cygwin-16.dll to several different directories. But > >I still cannot get past the following error. I would appreciate > >any tips. Thanks ahead for your help. > > > >$ make > >make[1]: Entering directory `/pkg/bdb-0.2.7/src' > >dllwrap --target=cygwin --as=as --dlltool-name=dlltool > >--driver-name=gcc --expor > >t-all -s --def=bdb.def -L/usr/local/cygwin-local/lib > >-L/cygdrive/d/ruby/lib -L/ > >usr/local/lib -o bdb.so bdb.o common.o cursor.o delegator.o env.o > >lock.o log.o r > >ecnum.o transaction.o -L. -lcygwin-ruby16 -ldb > >/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/2.95.3-5/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld > >: cann > >ot find -lcygwin-ruby16 > >collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > >dllwrap: gcc exited with status 1 > >make[1]: *** [bdb.so] Error 1 > >make[1]: Leaving directory `/pkg/bdb-0.2.7/src' > >make: *** [all] Error 2 > > > > > >-- > >"It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: > > the music is nothing if the audience is deaf." > > - Walter Lippman > > > >-- > >Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > >Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > >Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > >FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > _________________________________________________________________ > MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: > http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx