Cygwin Build Instructions

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Contents 1 Installing Cygwin 2 Downloading the necessary sources 3 Installing LUA 4 Installing Aquila 5 Getting rid of cygwin

Installing Cygwin

You need to install cygwin to build on Windows. To install cygwin download the cygwin setup.

You will need to add "gcc" and "make" to the installed packages, you can find them under:

 * All\devel\gcc
 * All\devel\make

This installation will take a while.

Downloading the necessary sources

If you want LUA support you will need to download

• the LUA 5.0.3 sources.
• the latest Aquila source.

Installing LUA

If you do not wish to use LUA, skip to the next chapter.

Unpack the lua sources. Type:

 cd lua-5.0.3
 make
 make install

This will build and install the necessary lua files.

Installing Aquila

To build aquila, follow the standard Aquila manual

Getting rid of cygwin

You can get rid of the while Cygwin directory by copying a few files to a new dir.

The files you need are:

• aquila.exe
• cygcrypt-0.dll
• cygwin1.dll
• cygz.dll

Copy these 4 files into a clean directory together with the aquila config files and you can delete the while cygwin dir.