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frankp221
frankp221

Reputation: 165

Installing gearman on windows 7 through cygwin and get "configure: error: Unable to find libevent"

I'm a newbie trying to install gearman on windows through cygwin using the tutorial here: http://www.phpvs.net/2010/11/30/installing-gearman-and-gearmand-on-windows-with-cygwin/

I need to install gearman to develop on my windows 7 laptop.

I've installed libevent in my C:\cygwin\libeventInstall directory but when I do a ./configure on gearman it gives me the error: configure: error: Unable to find libevent

I've read that I need to install libevent-devel. I don't know what libevent-devel is and how I go about installing it through cygwin. I've found a bunch of .rpm install files for libevent-devel but I don't think I can install that on windows. I've also found a libevent-devel-2.0.11-1.tar.bz2 but it contains a bunch of header files and no configure file. There doesn't seem to be any documentation on exactly how to install libevent-devel on cygwin.

Been stuck for a few days. Any pointers would be helpful. Thanks!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1969

Answers (2)

frankp221
frankp221

Reputation: 165

Gave up on using cygwin. Tried a reinstalling libevent as per the above and re-running gearman ./configure and the "configure: error: Unable to find libevent" persists.

Took James Butler's advice and am using virtualbox instead. Thanks.

Upvotes: 1

AlG
AlG

Reputation: 15157

You need to build LibEvent, it is not included in Cygwin. I haven't tried this, but a google search led to the following instructions:

  1. you need
  2. unpack cygwin-1.5.25-15-ipv6-0.22.zip into you cygwin folder about this files read site http://win6.jp/Cygwin/
  3. in libevent http.c file add line ---> #define EAI_SYSTEM 11
  4. now install libevent
  5. ./configure
  6. make
  7. make install

I also found this SO thread interesting since the Libevent devs were commenting.

Upvotes: 2

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