Need Help with building CS in Cygwin or MingW

[Zuero]

Ok for some reason when I follow the tutorial on how to build Crystal Space with MingW or Cygwin somethings in the tutorial don't work for example:

When I put ./configure it says that is it not a directory, and if I put make -k all with it it says it is not a command. It seems that whatever the tutorial is telling me to put in the prompts don't work. I already put in the directory for Crystal Space and it worked, it said it was a directory but after that I don't know what to do.

Can someone please help me so I can start using Crystal Space?

[Shadox]

did u type "cd ./configure" or just "./configure"?

(Im just trying to help)

[Zuero]

I just put ./configure

[Zuero]

Ok now I got this problem. It either says there's no acceptable C Compiler found in $PATH
or says there is no such directory for jamfile. Can someone please, please help me with this?

[Vincent]

One advice: avoid Cygwin for CS if you can, MinGW+MSYS should be good enough, and is better tested & supported.
If you follow those instructions to the letter, you should be fine: http://www.crystalspace3d.org/docs/online/manual/MinGW.html

[Zuero]

Well that's the tutorial I have been following for MSYS. But for some reason there's always an error.

[Vincent]

You're saying nothing about the CS & cswin32libs version you installed, nor if you used SVN to retrieve CS, or downloaded an archive (either SVN snapshot  or 1.2/stable).
That kind of information may help.
Also, could you copy/paste your commands and their result ?

Please make sure you follow the correct order of installation for the different components (MinGW/MSYS, cswin32libs, etc.).
In other words, double check you correctly followed the instuctions from the manual.