From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10024 invoked by alias); 3 Nov 2003 00:58:41 -0000 Mailing-List: contact xconq7-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: xconq7-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 10015 invoked from network); 3 Nov 2003 00:58:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO outbound28-2.lax.untd.com) (64.136.28.160) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 3 Nov 2003 00:58:40 -0000 Received: (qmail 12196 invoked from network); 3 Nov 2003 00:58:38 -0000 Received: from 66-52-245-11.sttl.dial.netzero.com (HELO vangogh) (66.52.245.11) by smtp04.lax.untd.com with SMTP; 3 Nov 2003 00:58:38 -0000 From: "Brandon J. Van Every" To: Subject: Canonical Windows build environment? Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2003 01:38:00 -0000 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-SW-Source: 2003/txt/msg00542.txt.bz2 Hi! What is the canonical Windows build environment on W2K? I've tried using Cygwin from www.cygwin.com , without success. Configure works fine. The 7.4.1 sources fail with errors in win32.c. I assume nobody's interested in figuring out why that might be. :-) The CVS sources fail anywhere get used, it seems it's seeking . Don't know if that's XConq or Cygwin's TK messing that up. As far as I know there's no X11 installation available for Cygwin. Do I need some screwy mingw flags or something? My config.guess is i686-pc-cygwin. I've also been trying to build Freeciv and found MinGW from www.mingw.org to be an utter horror to work with. I gave up and went with Cygwin. I am a typical Windoze developer, I can't seem to wrap my head around the rules and regulations for what kind of .DLLs are supposed to go where. That said, I've done the Linux drill back in the day, I'm far from clueless. But man, so many loose ends the past 5 days. In fact, to some degree I think my Linux knowledge has hurt as much has it has helped, I expected MinGW to be rational and it wasn't! There is no INSTALL-win file in CVS, nor in 7.4.1 for that matter. Would be nice if there was one. Think of all the people who will read the README, look for the mentioned INSTALL-win, and burst into tears when it isn't there. :P-( Cheers, www.indiegamedesign.com Brandon Van Every Seattle, WA Taking risk where others will not.