I'm fairly new to BioPython and wanted to use the EMBOSS needle and water tool on Windows 7 64 bit platform using Anaconda Spyder python 2.7 IDE, after adding the BioPython library in the Libs folder. To do this, I'm trying to install EMBOSS first using Cygwin 64 terminal following the instructions.
I downloaded the EMBOSS package. After uncompressing the folder and going to the directory of the uncompressed folder and performing the following command:
./configure --without-x CFLAGS=-s
I receive the following error message:
$ ./configure --without-x CFLAGS=-s
checking for gawk... gawk
checking for icc... no
checking for gcc... no
checking for cc... no
configure:
error: in `/home/Khajag/EMBOSS-6.5.7/EMBOSS-6.5.7':
configure:
error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH See `config.log'
for more details
What am I doing wrong here? Thanks.
Thank you for this... I will try and install the cygwin package for GCC as suggested by the link provided... also I will try and find mEMBOSS and install that as well if possible, considering that the FTP site is down at the moment.
I downloaded the GCC file namely:
gcc-4.1-20080630.tar.bz2
by the link provided. After unzipping it and pasting it in the EMBOSS folder, I entered the following command again:this time I got the following:
Might I ask what else is missing? Thanks.
Read the error message:
You still don't have GCC installed, it appears. The most foolproof method is to use the Cygwin package manager to install GCC and other developer tools. Run the Cygwin installer executable that you used to install Cygwin and select and add those packages.
I have some screenshots here that hint at the screens you should be looking at. The instructions I link to are for installing BEDOPS under Cygwin, but they should help you at least get the developer tools installed before you try to compile EMBOSS.