Creating htop from source in Cygwin

Question

I am trying to create htop from the source package (latest stable version) under Cygwin on Windows 7 64bit. I follow the instructions given in README, but when running make script:

I click the following error:

Administrator@x230-WIN7 ~/tmp/htop-1.0.3 $ make make all-am make[1]: Entering directory '/home/Administrator/tmp/htop-1.0.3' gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -DNDEBUG -pedantic -Wall -Wextra -std=c99 -rdynamic -D_XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED -DSYSCONFDIR=\"/usr/local/etc\" -g -O2 -MT htop-AvailableMetersPanel.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/htop-AvailableMetersPanel.Tpo -c -o htop-AvailableMetersPanel.o `test -f 'AvailableMetersPanel.c' || echo './'`AvailableMetersPanel.c gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-rdynamic' Makefile:467: recipe for target 'htop-AvailableMetersPanel.o' failed make[1]: *** [htop-AvailableMetersPanel.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/Administrator/tmp/htop-1.0.3' Makefile:292: recipe for target 'all' failed make: *** [all] Error 2 

All suggestions will be appreciated!

Answer 1

htop is the author here - htop has a lot of code for a specific platform, so porting it is not a matter of just recompiling it . The current version of htop does not support Cygwin. The latest release version, 2.0.1 , supports Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD.

I am happy to accept corrections if someone writes a port to Cygwin, though!