Please, please help me!

Posted by Saint on Wed 16 Mar 2005 09:30 PM — 2 posts, 12,466 views.

#0
I downloaded the Embermud Codebase, and it compiles clean. Well, almost. Here is the problem Im having.

gcc -c -Wall -ggdb -O3 -DLINUX -DNOCRYPT random.c
gcc -c -Wall -ggdb -O3 -DLINUX -DNOCRYPT recycle.c
gcc -c -Wall -ggdb -O3 -DLINUX -DNOCRYPT route_io.c
gcc -c -Wall -ggdb -O3 -DLINUX -DNOCRYPT save.c
gcc -c -Wall -ggdb -O3 -DLINUX -DNOCRYPT skills.c
gcc -c -Wall -ggdb -O3 -DLINUX -DNOCRYPT socialolc.c
gcc -c -Wall -ggdb -O3 -DLINUX -DNOCRYPT ssm.c
gcc -c -Wall -ggdb -O3 -DLINUX -DNOCRYPT string.c
gcc -c -Wall -ggdb -O3 -DLINUX -DNOCRYPT todoolc.c
gcc -c -Wall -ggdb -O3 -DLINUX -DNOCRYPT update.c
rm -f ember
gcc -O2 -DLINUX -o ember act_comm.o act_info.o act_move.o act_obj.oact_
wiz.o auction.o ban.o bank.o bit.o board.o comm.o const.o
clan.o class.o db.o factions.o fight.o handler.o helpolc.ointer
p.o magic.o marry.o mem.o mprog_commands.o mprog_procs.o mud_prog
s.o olc.o olc_act.o olc_save.o newbits.o pty.o random.orecycle.
o route_io.o save.o skills.o socialolc.o ssm.o string.o
todoolc.o update.o -lm -lcrypt
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.3.3/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld: cannot
find -lcrypt
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [ember] Error 1

Steven@computer ~/embermud-0.9.45/src
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And thats the problem Im having with this. I have absolutely NO idea whats wrong. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
USA #1
Easiest solution would probably be to install the crypt library for Cygwin.