bash-3.2$ ./configure;make
checking build system type… i686-pc-cygwin
checking host system type… i686-pc-cygwin
checking target system type… i686-pc-cygwin
checking for erl… /cygdrive/c/work/ardorbytes/erlang/erl5.6.2/bin/erl
checking for erlc… /cygdrive/c/work/ardorbytes/erlang/erl5.6.2/bin/erlc
checking for gcc… gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name… a.exe
checking whether the C compiler works… yes
checking whether we are cross compiling… no
checking for suffix of executables… .exe
checking for suffix of object files… o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler… yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g… yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89… none needed
checking how to run the C preprocessor… gcc -E
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e… /usr/bin/grep
checking for egrep… /usr/bin/grep -E
checking whether gcc needs -traditional… no
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)… yes
checking for a BSD-compatible install… /usr/bin/install -c
checking for werl… /cygdrive/c/work/ardorbytes/erlang/erl5.6.2/bin/werl
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating include.mk
make[1]: Entering directory `c:/work/ardorbytes/yaws/server/yaws-1.68/c_src’
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all’.
make[1]: Leaving directory `c:/work/ardorbytes/yaws/server/yaws-1.68/c_src’
make[1]: Entering directory `c:/work/ardorbytes/yaws/server/yaws-1.68/src’
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all’.
make[1]: Leaving directory `c:/work/ardorbytes/yaws/server/yaws-1.68/src’
make[1]: Entering directory `c:/work/ardorbytes/yaws/server/yaws-1.68/man’
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all’.
make[1]: Leaving directory `c:/work/ardorbytes/yaws/server/yaws-1.68/man’
make[1]: Entering directory `c:/work/ardorbytes/yaws/server/yaws-1.68/www/shopingcart’
cp shopcart.beam ../../examples/ebin
make[1]: Leaving directory `c:/work/ardorbytes/yaws/server/yaws-1.68/www/shopingcart’
make[1]: Entering directory `c:/work/ardorbytes/yaws/server/yaws-1.68/www/code’
cp myappmod.beam ../../examples/ebin
make[1]: Leaving directory `c:/work/ardorbytes/yaws/server/yaws-1.68/www/code’
make[1]: Entering directory `c:/work/ardorbytes/yaws/server/yaws-1.68/doc’
echo “To build the docs, please use make docs before doing make install”
To build the docs, please use make docs before doing make install
make[1]: Leaving directory `c:/work/ardorbytes/yaws/server/yaws-1.68/doc’
make[1]: Entering directory `c:/work/ardorbytes/yaws/server/yaws-1.68/scripts’
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all’.
make[1]: Leaving directory `c:/work/ardorbytes/yaws/server/yaws-1.68/scripts’
bash-3.2$

finally my bin/yaws file is 0KB

please help.

I had to compile some src/*.erl files by hands but after 2 hours of tryings I managed to start it.

Bad configuration file. Just follow the instructions and then delete the servers that appear at the end of yaws.conf, then start yaws with yaws -i. I got to run ErlyWeb!

Again, a Windows installer is very much needed.

$ ./bin/yaws
Eshell V5.6 (abort with ^G)
1>
=INFO REPORT==== 2-Feb-2008::14:59:13 ===
Yaws: Using config file c:/cygwin/home/Orlando/yaws.conf
1>
=INFO REPORT==== 2-Feb-2008::14:59:14 ===
Yaws: Listening to 0.0.0.0:8000 for servers
– http://Orlando-PC:8000 under c:/Cygwin/home/Orlando/yaws-1.74/scripts/../www
– http://localhost:8000 under c:/Cygwin/tmp
1>
=ERROR REPORT==== 2-Feb-2008::14:59:14 ===
FATAL: {badmatch,{error,no_ssl_server}}
1>
=ERROR REPORT==== 2-Feb-2008::14:59:14 ===
Top proc died, terminate gserv1>
=INFO REPORT==== 2-Feb-2008::14:59:14 ===
application: yaws
exited: {shutdown,{yaws_app,start,[normal,[]]}}
type: permanent
1> {“Kernel pid terminated”,application_controller,”{application_start_failure,y
aws,{shutdown,{yaws_app,start,[normal,[]]}}}”}

Crash dump was written to: erl_crash.dump
Kernel pid terminated (application_controller) ({application_start_failure,yaws,
{shutdown,{yaws_app,start,[normal,[]]}}})

Orlando@Orlando-PC ~
$

A Windows installer is very much needed.

There was one additional thing that I needed to do to get it working. Just in case if someone else comes up with the same issue. I needed to fix yawsdir variable from the yaws-X.XX/bin/yaws file to be C:/yawsdir or something that fits your system.

I’m in the same position as you – just starting to learn Erlang – but most interested ultimately in it being able to run on Windows (for legacy reasons).

I followed your instructions and there was only one thing different in my process: since my ~ dir is not under c:\cygwin all the paths in yaws.conf looked like: /cygdrive/c/somewhere/or/other

so instead of being able to simply prepend c:/cygwin instead I had to make some slight changes – drop the leading /cygdrive/ and turn the c/ into c:/

Thanks again!