Rebuilding from Source

All Cygnus products are free software; your Developer’s Kit includes complete source code for all programs. Because of this, you have the freedom to rebuild the tools for any of a variety of reasons, such as redefining compiled-in pathnames, or installing a source code patch from Cygnus.

Whatever the reason, we have designed and implemented an automatic configuration scheme to adapt the programs to different environments.

Rebuilding the programs from source requires these steps:

1. Configuration

2. Compilation

3. Installation

By referring to Configuration, Compilation and Installation of the Developer’s Kit, you can understand the background behind each of the three steps involved in completely building and installing the Cygnus Developer’s Kit.

See Examples and suggestions for variations on this theme.

Follow the examples in Building with the defaults to recreate the distribution as it exists by default.

Note:
The procedures described in this note are for Unix systems. For DOS or LynxOS toolkits, contact Cygnus for instructions on rebuilding your Developer’s Kit. In particular, since we do not provide a native DOS compiler, you must either rebuild on a Unix system or allow Cygnus to rebuild the toolkit for you.

We strongly recommend that you contact Cygnus if you wish to rebuild the Developer’s Kit for cross-platform development.

Contact your Cygnus technical representative, or get in touch with us. See Contacting Cygnus Solutions.