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Re: lynx-dev What happened to MINGW patch?


From: Doug Kaufman
Subject: Re: lynx-dev What happened to MINGW patch?
Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 12:17:06 -0800 (PST)

On Sun, 1 Feb 2004, Thomas Dickey wrote:

> I can vaguely recall seeing it, but didn't notice it when I was putting
> patches together (perhaps I thought it was part of the pdcurses patches,
> which I wasn't sure what to do with).

You do have to patch pdcurses for arrow keys to work in the MingW port,
but the patch I referenced was to let lynx compile. There are several
ways that lynx could be compiled under MingW, and I only tested one. 

I compiled under Cygwin, using the "-mno-cygwin" directive, and using
the configure script. This works, but configure gets three defines
wrong for MingW, requiring a manual edit of lynx_cfg.h. Optimally
(perhaps for the 2.8.6 series), I or someone else will patch configure
to fix that.

MingW now has msys, which should allow use of the configure script under
a pure MingW system, rather than using "-mno-cygwin" under a Cygwin bash
shell. The third option would be compiling from a batchfile, such as
makelynx.bat (which is in the distribution). Has anyone used these
latter two methods? Do they work on the current code? Who wrote
makelynx.bat? I had never really noticed that batch file before.
                                Doug

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Doug Kaufman
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