Re: [Monotone-devel] library build

[Zbigniew Zagórski]

2008/9/28 Zbigniew Zagórski <address@hidden>:
> 2008/9/28 Stephen Leake <address@hidden>:
...
>>
>> MinGW doesn't have a decent package manager, and I don't know where to
>> get pcre for MinGW; I looked for that a while ago. I haven't looked
>> for the others.
>
> AFAIR, on properly configured mingw+msys
>
> ./configure --prefix=/mingw && make install
>
> works like a charm for pcre-7.7.
>
> However, i don't know if botan & sqlite builds natively on mingw32 without
> tricks. I'll try to pefrorm some research on topic.

From my recent tests it appears that:
 - lua
 - pcre
 - botan
 - sqlite3
build without any problem on mingw/msys with simple
./configure --prefix=/mingw ; make ; make install

However, lua and botan need some custom configuration and makefile invocation.

I failed to build libidn on mingw and gave up after some strange
libtool+DLL linking errors.

Jack: are you interested in making botan compliant to standard
"configure/make" scenario ? I know it's overkill sometimes but making
configuration script names "configure" and supporting --prefix option
would be very convienient for some ad-hoc builders.

PS. I would like to test this "library-build" branch on mingw, is it
buildable at least on some common platform like linux ?

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Zbigniew Zagórski
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