How to build & install ace on cygwin?

 

Before making ACE

1. Get and decompress tar ball (e.g. /work/ACE_wrappers).
2. Set an environment variable;

 export ACE_ROOT=/work/ACE_wrappers

1. Create some symbolic links;

 cd $ACE_ROOT/include/makeinclude
 ln -s platform_cygwin32.GNU platform_macros.GNU
 cd $ACE_ROOT/ace
 ln -s config-cywin32.h config.h

Setting include path

Compiling ACE generates many errors by default of cygwin. It is because the preprocessor of g++ on cygwin behaved in a strange way. It regards the lines "signal.h" or so on in /usr/include/*.h files as the same name files in ACE.

Solution: To avoid this errors, you should export an environment variable like:

 export CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH=/usr/include:/usr/local/include:$CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH

and 

 make

Then you can compile ACE without any errors. This issue is not declaired at the official homepage of ACE/TAO. 

Local Installation

To install ACE to your cygwin,

 cp -r $ACE_ROOT/ace /usr/local/include
 cp $ACE_ROOT/lib/* /usr/local/lib

To tell your cygwin where is the ACE dynamic libraries,

 export PATH=/usr/local/lib:$PATH"

cygwin cannot search the libraries without setting PATH variable properly. It's a specification of cygwin.

Additional step to test ACE:

 cd $ACE_ROOT/tests
 make
 perl run_test.pl

PS: Don't using some special characters in your path.