Re: [Bug-gnubg] How to compile with Win32

[Nardy Pillards]

> >The text you [Nardy] posted is so instructional and informative that I
> think it
> >should be published at a web site, and linked from the FAQ.
>
> I wanted to suggest this, too.
>
> >If you, Nardy, can convert this to a nice HTML document, and Achim can
link
> >it from the FAQ, I think that would be a great help for future
developers.
>
> I would volunteer to make up a HTML page (as long as Nardy isn't keen on
> doing it ;-). I don't have a place to publish it, though. Anyway, I really
> think that the text should be included in the FAQ and replace the old
> instructions as they didn't work (at least for me).

I think I'm 'keen' on making a HTML page (smiling). And it will be available
this week.

There is one (slight little) challenge:
the packages change (ir)regularly.
Meaning: 'someone' has to keep up with the published packages and check out
if the new one still are 'covered' with the Makefiles and congif.h.

That is why I would prefer to build with MinGW and MSYS. The *nix
./configure checks the installed packages and only gtk-config would have to
be adapted from time to time.

Well... if you guys (and others) can live with a 'manual' system to compile
the builds for Win32, I can live with that too.

I'll keep you posted about the MinGW/MSYS progress.

> The procedure is quite easy and worked under Win2k and Win95, and
obviously
> WinME (Nardy), too.
> Holger
>
Yep, it was tested on Win95, Win98, WinME and Win2000.

Nardy