[Privoxy-users] Compiling Privoxy under Windows using Cygwin

[Eigeldinger Simon]

Hi all,

I just found out about Privoxy.
I contacted Fabian before because Mailman had issues subscribing me.
While i was looking at the website for Privoxy I saw that there was no 4.2.0 version for Windows.
Fabian told me that the person who compiled the Windows version switched over to linux.
So I looked at the documentation for compiling the code under Cygwin.

First i downloaded the Cygwin setup and ran this command to install the packages:

setup-x86_64 -P autoconf,automake,binutils,gcc-core,cmake,gcc-g++,git,make,mingw64-i686-gcc-core,mingw64-i686-zlib,vim,libxslt,curl,openssh,docbook-dssl,docbook-sgml31,docbook-utils,openjade,gnupg,w3m,libtidy5,pcre2,mbedtls,brotli

So actually all needed packages are available on Cygwin that we might need now.

Then i tried to compile Privoxy 4.2.0 using this command.
It seems that the config seems not to find the already installed pcre2 package.
Maybe someone could help me here.

Here is the full output:

$ ./windows/MYconfigure && make

CFLAGS=-O2 -fdiagnostics-color=always -fstack-protector-strong -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 -Wall -Wextra -Wno-missing-field-initializers -Wno-sign-compare -Wno-type-limits -Wno-unused-parameter -Wno-unused-but-set-variable -Wno-deprecated-declarations -Wformat=2 -Wlogical-op -Wshadow CPPFLAGS= -I/source/pcre2-10.47/src/ -I/source/mbedtls-3.6.5/include -I/source/brotli-1.2.0/build/installed/include -I/source/zstd-1.5.7/lib LDFLAGS= -fstack-protector-strong -Wl,--nxcompat -Wl,--dynamicbase,--export-all-symbols -L/source/pcre2-10.47/.libs -L/source/mbedtls-3.6.5/library -L/source/brotli-1.2.0/build/installed/lib -L/source/zstd-1.5.7/lib checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-cygwin checking host system type... i686-w64-mingw32 checking for i686-w64-mingw32-gcc... i686-w64-mingw32-gcc checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking for C compiler default output file name... a.exe checking for suffix of executables... .exe checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether the compiler supports GNU C... yes checking whether i686-w64-mingw32-gcc accepts -g... yes checking for i686-w64-mingw32-gcc option to enable C23 features... -std=gnu23 checking how to run the C preprocessor... i686-w64-mingw32-gcc -std=gnu23 -E checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether ln -s works... yes checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking for gawk... gawk checking for gdb... no checking for groups... /usr/bin/groups checking for id... /usr/bin/id
configure: WARNING: There is no user 'privoxy' on this system checking for user... none specified checking for group... none specified Using mingw32 (Win32 GUI) checking for w3m... w3m checking for db2html... no checking for docbook2html... docbook2html checking for openjade... openjade checking for onsgmls... onsgmls checking for man2html... no checking for /usr/share/sgml/docbook/dsssl-stylesheets... yes checking for /usr/share/sgml/CATALOG.docbk30... no checking for /usr/share/sgml/CATALOG.docbk31... no checking for /usr/share/sgml/CATALOG.docbk31... no checking for /usr/local/share/sgml/docbook/2.4.1/docbook.cat... no checking for /usr/local/share/sgml/docbook/3.0/docbook.cat... no checking for /usr/local/share/sgml/docbook/3.1/docbook.cat... no checking for /usr/share/sgml/docbook/dtd/3.1/docbook.cat... no checking for stdio.h... yes checking for stdlib.h... yes checking for string.h... yes checking for inttypes.h... yes checking for stdint.h... yes checking for strings.h... yes checking for sys/stat.h... yes checking for sys/types.h... yes checking for unistd.h... yes checking for sys/time.h... yes checking for pthread.h... yes Using native threads checking for gethostbyname in -lnsl... no checking for gethostbyaddr_r... no no checking for gethostbyname_r... no no checking for gmtime_r... no no checking for localtime_r... no no checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /usr/bin/grep checking for egrep... /usr/bin/grep -E checking for dirent.h that defines DIR... yes checking for library containing opendir... none required checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes checking for size_t... yes checking for pid_t... yes checking whether struct tm is in sys/time.h or time.h... time.h checking size of int... 4 checking size of char *... 4 checking size of long... 4 checking size of long long... 8 checking size of size_t... 4 checking size of time_t... 4 checking for OS.h... no checking for arpa/inet.h... no checking for errno.h... yes checking for fcntl.h... yes checking for limits.h... yes checking for locale.h... yes checking for netdb.h... no checking for netinet/in.h... no checking for stddef.h... yes checking for stdlib.h... (cached) yes checking for string.h... (cached) yes checking for sys/ioctl.h... no checking for sys/socket.h... no checking for sys/time.h... (cached) yes checking for sys/timeb.h... yes checking for sys/wait.h... no checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes checking return type of signal handlers... void checking for access... yes checking for arc4random... no checking for atexit... yes checking for calloc... yes checking for getcwd... yes checking for gethostbyaddr... no checking for gethostbyaddr_r... (cached) no checking for gethostbyname... no checking for gethostbyname_r... (cached) no checking for gettimeofday... yes checking for inet_ntoa... no checking for memchr... yes checking for memmove... yes checking for memset... yes checking for nanosleep... yes checking for poll... no checking for putenv... yes checking for random... no checking for regcomp... no checking for select... no checking for setlocale... yes checking for shutdown... no checking for snprintf... yes checking for socket... no checking for strchr... yes checking for strdup... yes checking for strerror... yes checking for strftime... yes checking for strlcat... no checking for strlcpy... no checking for strptime... no checking for strtoul... yes checking for timegm... no checking for tzset... yes checking for main in -lws2_32... yes checking getaddrinfo in ws2_32... yes checking getnameinfo in ws2_32... yes checking for pcre2_compile_8 in -lpcre2-8... no checking for regcomp in -lpcre2-posix... no Enabling support for client-specific tags.
checking for zlibVersion in -lz... yes
Enabling compression support.
configure: error: Failed to detect pcre2 library.