[ros-users] Need Help Installing ROS in Cygwin on Windows

[Brian Gerkey]

On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 3:17 PM, Karl Muecke <karl.muecke at ni.com> wrote:
> I was following the instructions found at:
> http://mplab.ucsd.edu/~ting/notes/ros/ros-cygwin.html
> I got the point where I build: rosmake rostest --rosdep-install --rosdep-yes
>
> When I do this, eventually the window says:
>
> Installing zlib
> Package zlib not found or ambiguous name, exiting
> [ rosmake ] rosdep successfully installed all system dependencies
> [ rosmake ] Prebuilding rospack
> [ rosmake ] Prebuilding gtest
> Failed to build gtest

I haven't tried building ROS under Cygwin, but the first step would be
getting more information on the failure to build gtest:

  cd ros/3rdparty/gtest
  make

	brian.