Re: [Bug-wget] Can't build wget 1.12 on MSWindows XP

[Micah Cowan]

Hi,

Please fix your mailer: it posted the content of your mail as
"application/octet-stream", rather than plain/text, which would tend to
prevent other mailer programs from reading it, except as an attachment.

Vincent Belaïche wrote:
> I tried to build unsuccessfully Wget on MSWindowsXP.
> 
> Attached to this email are the logs of this attempt.
> 
> I tried the ./configure+make way with MSYS+MinGw
> 
> When configuring I made a 1st attempt with only prefix and infodir
> options, and then a 2nd attempt  where I tried to disable all that could
> be disabled, in the hope that the build would be successful.
> 
> Are there any binary distribution of Wget for MSWindows?

Unfortunately, there isn't, and the official wget 1.12 release lacks
some necessary changes to allow building with MSYS+MinGw. The current
development sources in Mercurial should work, BUT I was never able to
get openssl working properly with it, which means no HTTPS (encrypted
web) support.

Hopefully someone will bring Wget the rest of way before too long.

-- 
Micah J. Cowan
http://micah.cowan.name/