Installing cygwin with compilers and development packages

Question

I need to compile kannel for windows and I installed cygwin. It says I don't have compilers to compile with cygwin. How do I resolve this ? Is there any full-featured cygwin image available anywhere on the internet ?

Please help. SOS!

I'm following this tutorial to compile kannel with cygwin.

• http://saurabhsachdeva.wordpress.com/2008/02/29/kannel-installation-on-windows/

Answer 1

It looks like Kannel is written in C, so you probably just need to install make, gcc, and so on; these aren't included in the base Cygwin install, so you need to re-run the installer and make sure you select those packages. See the Cygwin FAQ.

Answer 2

As kannel is built with C, you need a C compiler. In my case, I have Visual Studio 2010, which has a built in C compiler. Just Google for "C compiler"; you can get many Open Source ones for free.