RE: Undefined reference to _ctype__?

["Kendall Bennett" <KendallB at scitechsoft dot com>]

"Suhaib M. Siddiqi" <siddiqis@ipass.net> wrote:

> > > I am mainly interested in building X11 sources under Cygwin at the 
> > > moment (so I can figure out the SGI OpenGL DDK without building on 
> > > Linux ;-).
> 
> The SGI OpenGL DDK port to Cygwin has already been done.  It is at
> my personal URL at http://siddiqi.webjump.com.  It is based upon
> the recent SGI OpenGL Implementation Source Code Release under SGI
> OpenSource Project.  It includes static as well as DLLs of libGL,
> libGLU, libGlw, libnurbs and libRGB. The port was straight forward
> except at a few places you need to fix #ifdef WIN32 which caused
> conflicts with Win32 API headers in Cygwin.  

Great! Do you have patches for this stuff for the changes? I am 
currently running with the latest CVS versions of the SGI OpenGL 
stuff rather than one of the tarball distributions. I want to merge 
this into our perforce server so we can track the latest updates to 
the code.

> Any recent Cygwin Snapshot should do.  I am currently using 
> cygwin-inst-20000221.tar.gz
> 
> After extraction I rename the i686-pc-cygwin to i586-cygwin32 and
> copy everything to H-i586-cygwin32.  This is a crude way of
> installing a snapshot to replace your stock B20.1. 

Thanks! I will give that a try.

BTW, I assume I don't need any of the other snapshot files then?

Regards,

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