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What's my stupid mistake with mingw?
From: |
Richard Frith-Macdonald |
Subject: |
What's my stupid mistake with mingw? |
Date: |
Sat, 26 Jan 2002 08:45:17 +0000 |
With the talk of adding poll() support to NSRunLoop, I thought again of
writing a mingw
implementation of NSRunLoop. My old NT system is long dead, so I
installed a new copy
of windoze-xp on one of my machines.
I then downloaded and installed the latest cygwin.
I then downloaded and installed the latest mingw (1.1).
I set my PATH to put the mingw bin directory first.
I renamed the mingw copy of the make program so that the cygwin make
would be used.
I built/installed gnustep_make.
I tried running GNUstep.sh ... found that it fell over because under xp
the path to a
users home directory has spaces in it ... modified GNUstep.sh to quote
variables better
and fix that problem.
Then I checked the mingw documentation in the make package. It said I
should install
libffcall next. I fetched the 1.8c archive from the gnustep site ...
but the
compile-mingw script mentioned in the documentation was not there. I
found it in an
email archive on the web and ran it. It bombed out with the compile of
avcall-i386.s
failing and complaining about "|invalid character '(' in mnemonic"
Now ... looking at the makefile, it seems to do some processing to
convert avcall-i386.S
to avcall-i386.s
However, the filesystem is not case sensitive, so avcall-i386.S and
avcall-i386.s are the
same file, and this preprocessing pass seems to be quietly failing so
that it has not been
done when we get round to trying to run the assembler.
What I can't see is how this could ever have built under windoze ... so
I'm wondering if
I've missed something basic.
Any help appreciated.
- What's my stupid mistake with mingw?,
Richard Frith-Macdonald <=
- Re: What's my stupid mistake with mingw?, Adam Fedor, 2002/01/26
- Re: What's my stupid mistake with mingw?, Nicola Pero, 2002/01/26
- Re: What's my stupid mistake with mingw?, Richard Frith-Macdonald, 2002/01/26
- Re: What's my stupid mistake with mingw?, Nicola Pero, 2002/01/30
- Re: What's my stupid mistake with mingw?, Helge Hess, 2002/01/30
- Re: What's my stupid mistake with mingw?, Richard Frith-Macdonald, 2002/01/30
- Re: What's my stupid mistake with mingw?, Helge Hess, 2002/01/30
- Re: What's my stupid mistake with mingw?, Nicola Pero, 2002/01/31