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Re: lynx-dev What happened to MINGW patch?
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Thomas Dickey |
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Re: lynx-dev What happened to MINGW patch? |
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Sun, 1 Feb 2004 19:48:18 -0500 (EST) |
On Sun, 1 Feb 2004, [ISO-8859-1] Fr?d?ric L. W. Meunier wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Feb 2004, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 1 Feb 2004, Doug Kaufman wrote:
> >
> > > On Sun, 1 Feb 2004, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > >
> > > I compiled under Cygwin, using the "-mno-cygwin" directive, and using
> > > the configure script. This works, but configure gets three defines
> > > wrong for MingW, requiring a manual edit of lynx_cfg.h. Optimally
> > > (perhaps for the 2.8.6 series), I or someone else will patch configure
> > > to fix that.
> >
> > I made a quick try at this a few hours ago, but the script didn't get
> > anywhere - couldn't link. That's using just the cygwin packages. Is
> > there any documentation on building mingw binaries on cygwin?
>
> I don't know why Doug is using PDCurses. Because ncurses
> doesn't work with -mno-cygwin ?
yes - ncurses hasn't been ported to use the MSVC dll that mingw uses.
> But last I heard you needed to compile all libraries the binary
> links to with -mno-cygwin. You can't use the ones from Cygwin
> (like bzip2, OpenSSL, zlib).
I'll look at it later (for now, will only ensure that these changes don't
prevent it from building with the makelynx.bat script). I have a very
long list of competing distractions...
> And does a lynx binary compiled with -mno-cygwin lack or add
> anything compared to one you compile with Borland or MVSC ?
probably not - since he has to use PDCurses anyway.
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- lynx-dev What happened to MINGW patch?, Doug Kaufman, 2004/02/01
- Re: lynx-dev What happened to MINGW patch?, Thomas Dickey, 2004/02/01
- Re: lynx-dev What happened to MINGW patch?, Doug Kaufman, 2004/02/01
- Re: lynx-dev What happened to MINGW patch?, Thomas Dickey, 2004/02/01
- Re: lynx-dev What happened to MINGW patch?, Frédéric L . W . Meunier, 2004/02/01
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- Re: lynx-dev What happened to MINGW patch?, Doug Kaufman, 2004/02/01
- Re: lynx-dev What happened to MINGW patch?, Frédéric L . W . Meunier, 2004/02/01
- Re: lynx-dev What happened to MINGW patch?, Doug Kaufman, 2004/02/02
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- Re: lynx-dev What happened to MINGW patch?, Frédéric L . W . Meunier, 2004/02/02
- Re: lynx-dev What happened to MINGW patch?, Thomas Dickey, 2004/02/02
- Re: lynx-dev What happened to MINGW patch?, Thomas Dickey, 2004/02/02
- Re: lynx-dev What happened to MINGW patch?, Doug Kaufman, 2004/02/01
- Re: lynx-dev What happened to MINGW patch?, Thomas Dickey, 2004/02/02