Trouble with DDD download via cygwin setup

Harold L Hunt II huntharo@msu.edu
Mon Dec 15 12:41:00 GMT 2003


Norm,

Norman Goldstein wrote:
>  Thanks to Arnaud Dessiter for help and pointers.
> Here are the steps I suggest for someone
> who wants to get ddd up and running on
> MS's Mindows 2000, without going through the
> current compilation travails:
> 
> 1. Install cygwin/X from a distribution that has lesstif 0.93.91-4 .
> (this has the cygXm-2.dll).  e.g. http://ftp.udel.edu
> 
> 2. Download the binary ddd 3.3.8-1 from Harold Hunt's web site:
> http://www.egr.msu.edu/~huntharo/cygwin/release/ddd
> Unpack this into its own directory.

Why don't you add the following address to setup.exe?

http://www.egr.msu.edu/~huntharo/cygwin/

I have a setup.ini file there that should allow you to install ddd 
without any manual steps.

> 3. Add ddd's usr/bin directory to the PATH variahle.
> I use the default cygwin shell, so this amounts to editing
> the .profile in my home directory.

Why is this needed?  I don't remember what I did exactly with this 
package, but I remember not having to do something like this.

Harold



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