Building htop from source in Cygwin

Question

I am trying to build htop from the source package (latest stable) under Cygwin on Windows 7 64bit. I am following the instructions given in README, but I'm hitting the following error when I run the make script:

Administrator@x230-WIN7 ~/tmp/htop-1.0.3
$ make
make  all-am
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/Administrator/tmp/htop-1.0.3'
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.  -DNDEBUG  -pedantic -Wall -Wextra -std=c99 -rdynamic -D_XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED -DSYSCONFDIR=\"/usr/local/etc\" -g -O2 -MT htop-AvailableMetersPanel.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/htop-AvailableMetersPanel.Tpo -c -o htop-AvailableMetersPanel.o `test -f 'AvailableMetersPanel.c' || echo './'`AvailableMetersPanel.c
gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-rdynamic’
Makefile:467: recipe for target 'htop-AvailableMetersPanel.o' failed
make[1]: *** [htop-AvailableMetersPanel.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/Administrator/tmp/htop-1.0.3'
Makefile:292: recipe for target 'all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 2

All suggestions would be appreciated!

Answer 1

htop author here — htop has a lot of platform-specific code, so porting it is not a matter of simply recompiling it. The current version of htop does not support Cygwin. The latest release version, 2.0.1, supports Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD and OpenBSD.

I'm happy to accept patches if someone writes a Cygwin port, though!