Compiling Yap on windows 8

Question

I am trying to compile yap on my PC since it seems YAP default installers don't come with the Depth limit flag enabled. I need this to work on an ILP project on Aleph.

The thing is, that I am forced to use a PC with windows 8 without enough memory for a Linux Virtual machine. I got cygwin to attempt to install it, but once I get to the 'make' stage of the installation ( http://www.dcc.fc.up.pt/~vsc/Yap/Yap4.3/yap.html#SEC2 ) I get this following error

$ make
Makefile:714: warning: overriding recipe for target 'yap.dll'
Makefile:545: warning: ignoring old recipe for target 'yap.dll'
gcc  -mno-cygwin -c -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -g -O2 -DCUT_C=1  -DCOROUTINING=1 -DRATIONAL_TREES=1 -DDEPTH_LIMIT=1 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -D_YAP_NOT_INSTALLED_=1 -I. -I../H -I../OPTYap -I../BEAM -I../MYDDAS ../C/agc.c -o agc.o
gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-mno-cygwin’
Makefile:488: recipe for target 'agc.o' failed
make: *** [agc.o] Error 1

I assume it's due to the latest YAP being outdated right now, does anyone know what to do to work around this?

Answer 1

It seems long time has passed since the question is asked. But I would like to answer since the problem is still relevant (I had this problem lately).

Asking at YAP-users mailing list, I was able to solve this problem. You can check the details here.

In short, using MSYS2 or MinGW-w64 (with toolchain installed) and making few changes in the source code makes it possible.

Changes are:

• Adding #include <stdio.h> in blob.c file.
• Refactoring H with HEAD (or some other name) in whole project. Which was defined in Regs.h, line 590.