Samtool Installation Using Cygwin

Question

[Nasrin]

Hi all, im trying to install samtool using cygwin on windows. when i type make command to compile source files, an error message says that "command not found". i even tried reinstalling cygwin and installing all dependencies such as gcc and zlib. please give me a solution on this problem.

thank you in advance.

Answer 1

[Istvan Albert]

You will need to install make and other dependencies. In general when trying to do bioinformatics on cygwin make sure to install everything. When selecting packages click the top checkbox to select all cygwin packages. The download is larger but at least you'll head off one big set of problems, that of missing required software.