<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; ">I would suggest being sure the code you are trying to compile under cygwin, builds under straight Linux first.</div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; "><br></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2">I tried building Racket under cygwin end of Nov./Dec. unsuccessfully. In #racket they told me I was on my own.</font></span><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; ">So I switched to straight Linux (Ubuntu 10.10) and in the end got just the text version from a development build the end of Dec. to build/work, which was enough for me. From the forums I think the problems with building all of Racket under Linux have been fixed, but I haven't had time nor need to try it out
again.</div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; "><br></div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; ">Assuming your student gets the Racket cygwin build to work - Please post anything special you have do. I expect to get back to this in Feb.</div><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"></blockquote></td></tr></table><br>