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I've been trying to compile mutt under cygwin for a few days. The included version is outdated and does not include things I need like header caching. Anyways, I always get the message:

"configure: error: no curses library found"

I have all the curses + devel stuff installed + termpcap, which I heard might be related. I've tried re-installing, i've tried specifying the location on the configure command line, but i'm not sure i'm doing it right:

"--with-curses=/usr/lib/libncurses.a --with-curses=/usr/lib/libncurses.dll.a --with-curses=/usr/include/ncurses"

Here's my config.log:

http://floatsolutions.net/docs/config.log

Any ideas?

EDIT: Context

math0ne
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6 Answers6

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1.4.2.2 is part of cygwin, if you select it in the mail package section.

weismat
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As it happens, Cygwin's mutt package was updated to 1.5.20 with support for Unicode and other character sets yesterday.

ak2
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It looks like your environment is messed up.

configure:11329: gcc -o conftest.exe -g -O2   conftest.c -ltermcap   >&5
C:\Program Files\Haskell Platform\2010.1.0.0\mingw\bin\ld.exe: cannot find -ltermcap

Your building form cygwin, but it's roping in mingwin build tools from your "Haskell Platform" program?

try prefixing your command w/ the env utility, try this in cygwin:

env -i PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/locals/bin ./configure
Jason
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This might help:

        
  232  ./configure  --help | less
  233  ./configure  --enable-smtp --with-regex --with-ssl --enable-pop  --enable-imap --with-mailpath=/var/spool/mail --enable-hcache --with-sasl
  234  make clean; make
  235  ./mutt
  236  make install
Old Whiskers
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Unfortunately Cygwin has not complied mutt with smtp_url enabled in the 1.5.20 build.

–enable-smtp and –with-sasl

So I would not be able to send email with smtp auth, with out installing something else, at the moment I just ssh into a server at base and do it.

If I find the time I will have a go at building mutt under Cygwin.

However, I will probably just install a ubuntu server vm, since I would rather learn more about ubuntu than mess around with Cygwin. Thought mutt would at least be up to date in Cygwin.

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If you want to compile 'mutt' for Cygwin, and be able to access services such as Gmail, do the following:

  • From a base install of Cygwin, install the following packages:
    • mutt (source)
    • automake
    • openssl
    • openssl-devel
    • libsasl2-devel
    • make
    • gcc
    • ncurses
    • libncurses-devel
    • gdbm

Once these are installed, locate the source package in '/usr/src/mutt-1.5.22-1'(1.5.22-1 is the latest version at the time of this writing) change into that directory, and run the following:

  • $ cd /usr/src/mutt-1.5.22-1
  • $ ./configure --enable-imap --enable-pop --with-ssl --enable-smtp --with-homespool=mailspool --enable-hcache --enable-debug --with-sasl

If all goes well, you should have a working implementation at '/usr/local/bin/mutt'

You can use your .muttrc from the *nix side of things with little trouble.

Doug Fordham
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