I'm sorry to hear that. I don't know if it is encouraging but we are running a build-slave with Windows XP and cygwin with some results. http://lidell.nu/xemacs-buildbot/buildslaves/matsl-x86-cygwin This does of course not fix your problems with getting cygwin in shape for XEmacs. You don't say what corruption your are having but I have had problems before with X-window stuff under cygwin. So I try to stay away of X-windows under cygwin. The cygwin environment for the buildslave is installed from scratch with a careful selection of packages. I don't know if there is a way to get a list of packages installed but if it would be a help to you I could try to get it. Having said that, the cygwin environment is also used for my cygwin needs for my day job. So it is not just an environment set up to be able to build XEmacs. Yours -- %% Mats _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta

I compile xemacs from source regularly under cygwin with no problems -- what switches are you giving configure, what sources are you using, and what cygwin release are you on? ht -- Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 651-1426, e-mail: ht(a)inf.ed.ac.uk URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/ [mail from me _always_ has a .sig like this -- mail without it is forged spam] _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta