Re: [Bug-wget] Thoughts on Windows support

[Micah Cowan]

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Micah Cowan wrote:
> So, I've played around a bit with building wget on Windows, and here's
> what I've seen so far.
> 
> Switching to the use of automake and gnulib in the 1.12 sources seems to
> have potentially simplified the job of maintaining support for Windows
> builds via MinGW, if one is also using MSYS. You can generate the
> Makefiles directly from the included Makefile.in's by running the
> configure script, which is a lot handier than maintaining a separate
> "Makefile.src.mingw", etc.
> 
> I haven't gotten a successful build this way, yet, but I didn't spend a
> lot of time on it, either.

Update: I have now achieved builds this way, after a minimal amount of
adjustment to the sources (which I have not yet pushed to the public
repository). I'm now investigating with Wget builds that are linked to
openssl (for https), and libidn and libiconv (for IDN/IRI support).

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Micah J. Cowan
Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer.
Maintainer of GNU Wget and GNU Teseq
http://micah.cowan.name/
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