Re: CVS repository

From: Robert Collins <robertc@dont-contact.us>
Date: 04 Sep 2002 09:36:01 +1000

On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 09:28, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> On Tuesday 03 September 2002 14.16, Guido Serassio wrote:
>
> > With MSVC they are not needed (and nor present), so on autoconf.h
> > the associated defines are not defined.
> > Please note: native port uses a manually build autoconf.h file
> > located in port/win32/include because autotools are not available.
>
> You should be able to use the cygwin runtime for autotools, and the
> mingw toolchain (or perhaps even MSVC command line mode) for
> compiling..
>
> Note: Not sure how well integrated the mingw toolchain is into the
> cygwin distribution. The mingw FAQ recommends using a separate
> install next to your cygwin directory, and also, when I tried to use
> the mingw runtime bundled with cygwin some years ago it was quite
> lobotomized ending up with header files from both worlds, but
> hopefully things have improved since then.. but there is some
> disturbing hardcoded references to /usr/include in autoconf generated
> configure files..

The largest issue is getting the correct libstdc++.a these days. Chris's
work on gcc 3.2 should solve that permanently sometime soon.

Rob

Received on Tue Sep 03 2002 - 17:35:50 MDT

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