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

[Vincent Belaïche]

>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.
> 

Ooops, I used emacs to send the mail, and I made a mistake with making
the attachment of logs (you can configure explicitely the type of each
part in the mail)

>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, 

You mean tha the development source code (not yet release) should
compile with MSYS+MinGW. I go a release version from
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/wget/, where is the repository for developement
source. Do I need Mercurial, or can I retrieve them with SVN or CVS ?

>BUT I was never able to
>get openssl working properly with it, which means no HTTPS (encrypted
>web) support.
> 

Hopefuly I won't need that, my problem is just that I am trying to use
latest JDE with latest CEDET, and JDE requires Wget.

   Vincent.

>Hopefully someone will bring Wget the rest of way before too long.
> 
>-- 
>Micah J. Cowan
>http://micah.cowan.name/