UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi everyone!

Hope all of you will be fine. I am new to this forum.

Well, I am trying to configure yaml-0.1.4 in cygwin [ DLL version: 1.7.27] on Windows 7.
I have written the following command:

Code:

*******/tmp/yaml-0.1.4
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr && make && make install

and the following error appeared.

Code:

./configure: line 32: syntax error near unexpected token `newline'
'/configure: line 32: `  ;;

I used the online "dos2unix" converter to convert the "configure" file present in yaml-0.1.4 subdirectory:

and again executed the previous command but faced the following error:

Code:

$ ./configure --prefix=/usr && make && make install
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.

I cannot figure out what is going wrong? Please help me to resolve this issue.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Robert

I doubt you "fixed" ./configure by running dos2unix on it, especially when squeezing it through an online converter... If anything you would have broken it further.

If you want libyaml for windows, it comes with Visual Studio 6, Visual Studio 2003, and Visual Studio 2008 projects.

Hi Corona688,

Thanks for your response.

However, I noticed that "Visual Studio 6, Visual Studio 2003, and Visual Studio 2008 projects" already exist in the folder "win32" [which is under yaml-0.1.4 directory]. So according to my observation, the reason could be some formatting issues in "configure" file which is originally in "dos" format but I want to use it with cygwin (which you know provides unix/linux like environment in windows). That's why i used an online "dos2unix" converter but as you mentioned earlier "the problem was fixed but configure file has something further broken inside it" and has failed to create "Makefile" file which would further have been used in "make" and "make install" commands.

Having said all that, I need your kind help to successfully build the "yaml" using "./configure" command, i.e. let me know from your experience about some efficient way to manipulate "configure" file so that I can get rid of the above mentioned issues. I really really need help.

Suggestions and recommendations from other respected members are also welcome.
Thanking you all in anticipation.

Regards,
Robert

You would use these instead of ./configure and make.

./configure was never in "dos" format. The .tar.gz is for all architectures and "converting" it will ruin it even more.