Building 0MQ under Cygwin

Question

I'm trying to build and install the ZeroMQ libraries (2.1.11 cloned from GitHub) under Cygwin (on a Windows 7 system).

configure gives me this error message:

configure: error: cannot link with -luuid, install the e2fsprogs package

which persists even after I install e2fsprogs (1.41.14-1).

Is this a sign that ZeroMQ needs a real Ext2 file system? Where did I go wrong?

Answer 1

You need to install the libuuid-devel package. (When getting a linker error about -lxyz, searching http://cygwin.com/packages for libxyz usually does the trick.)