# Error building under Win32/Cygwin \[SOLVED\]

**URL:** <https://discourse.libsdl.org/t/error-building-under-win32-cygwin-solved/12139>\
**Category:** SDL Development\
**Created:** [May 1, 2005, 10:57pm UTC](https://discourse.libsdl.org/t/error-building-under-win32-cygwin-solved/12139 "2005-05-01T22:57:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![gpdev](https://discourse.libsdl.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/90db22/32.png) [@gpdev](https://discourse.libsdl.org/u/gpdev)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2005, 10:57pm UTC](https://discourse.libsdl.org/t/error-building-under-win32-cygwin-solved/12139/1 "2005-05-01T22:57:39Z")

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I’ve managed to solve this by doing a clean default Cygwin installtion.  
Then adding the required devel packages (cvs, autoconf, automake, gcc, make).  
I got SDL-1.2.7 source using CVS then did the “[autogen.sh](http://autogen.sh), configure, make, make  
install” routine.  
Everything worked this time.

I suspect that some Devel package in my previous install was the cause of the  
problem, possibly a package for handling m4 scripts.