Re: Testing for drawing fixes r30523

[Nicola Pero]

> > Can you give us more information on the issues you had ?  I updated  
> > the README.MinGW doc a couple of months ago or so.  If it stopped  
> > working (because of changes
> > in MinGW or somewhere else) I'd like to know, so I can update it  
> > again :-)
>
> Sorry for the late reply.
>
> Here are the issues I encountered with MinGW/MSys 1.0.11 (including  
> GCC 3.4.5):
> - the libxml 2.7.6 source didn't compile with GCC. I worked around  
> it by installing the binary available at http://www.zlatkovic.com/libxml.en.html
> - gnustep-make didn't add -lpthread whereas I configured it with -- 
> thread-lib=posix. I had to add -lpthread to objc_threaded by  
> editing /usr/local/share/GNUstep/Makefiles/config.make directly
> - make install doesn't work on Vista because of permission issues. I  
> solved the issue as I explained previously here: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnustep-dev/2010-06/msg00055.html
> - gnustep-base didn't compile. GCC was unable to find the objc  
> headers although they were properly installed in /usr/local/include  
> and GCC --print-search-dirs was reporting the right header search  
> paths

Thanks Quentin, I guess I'll have to try again :-)

I don't have Windows Vista though, but I added a mention of the  
installation permission problem in the README.MinGW.

Did you use the latest README.MinGW from core/make/Documentation ?

I'm asking because I was checking, and in the README.MinGW mentions to  
configure gnustep-make using

./configure --with-layout=fhs --with-thread-lib=-lpthread

but you mention --with-thread-lib=posix - maybe that was a typo ?

Thanks