Re: [Bino-list] Compilation for dummies

[Tim Sampson]

Well, I am learning something here!

This got me a bit further but apparently, I am missing windres.

  checking for i686-pc-mingw32-windres... no
  checking for windres... no
  configure: error: windres not found

Cheers
Tim

On 27/06/2012 12:23, Martin Lambers wrote:
> Short fix:
>
> You need backticks (`) for the --build option: --build=`...`.
>
> Explanation:
>
> The --host option tells the configure script which platform you are
> building *for*. The --build option tells your configure script which
> platform you are building *on*.
>
> What the backticks do is to replace everything inside `...` with the
> output of the command build-aux/config.guess. This command guesses your
> platform.
>
> You can omit the --build option, in which case the configure script
> will just guess your platform (by calling build-aux/config.guess
> itself). This usually works, but sometimes gives a warning.
>
> Martin