Compiling MSWindows binary of Asymptote under CYGWIN-x86_64 First run build-asymptote on Linux. This will build the documentation and source tar ball and copy them to a directory ~/shared which needs to be shared via virtualbox to the cygwin build environment. Install these cygwin packages: git wget make patch gcc-g++ autoconf2.5 bison flex w32api-headers w32api-runtime zlib-devel libGLU-devel libtirpc-devel (SRC) libreadline-devel (SRC) libfftw3-devel (SRC) libgsl-devel (SRC) automake1.15 libtool mv /usr/include/GL /usr/include/GL.orig Build and install static libraries from /usr/local/src: gsl-devel: ./configure --prefix=/usr make install readline-devel: ./configure --prefix=/usr --without-curses --disable-shared make install fftw3-devel: ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared make install tirpc-devel (if rpc library is unavailable): ./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-gssapi make install ln -s /usr/include/tirpc/rpc /usr/include/rpc ln -s /usr/include/tirpc/netconfig.h /usr/include/netconfig.h ln -s /usr/lib/libtirpc.a /usr/lib/librpc.a termcap-1.3.1: ./configure --prefix=/usr make install git clone http://github.com/vectorgraphics/asymptote cd /usr/include patch -p0 < ~/asymptote/patches/cygwin_glu.patch mkdir -p ~/dll/cygwin cp /usr/bin/cygwin1.dll ~/dll/cygwin cd ~/asymptote/build-scripts/build-freeglut install texlive mkdir ~/CTAN cp -a ~/asymptote/build-scripts/README-binaries ~/CTAN GCVERSION=7.6.2 wget http://hboehm.info/gc/gc_source/gc-$GCVERSION.tar.gz wget http://www.ivmaisoft.com/_bin/atomic_ops/libatomic_ops-$GCVERSION.tar.gz tar -zxf gc-$GCVERSION.tar.gz tar -zxf libatomic_ops-$GCVERSION.tar.gz mv libatomic_ops-$GCVERSION gc-$GCVERSION/libatomic_ops cd gc-$GCVERSION patch -p1 < ~/asymptote/patches/cygwin_gc.patch ./configure --disable-shared make check ~/asymptote/build-scripts/build-asymptote.dos 2.43