Re: Building gui and back on Windows

[Andreas Hoeschler]

Hello Larry,

thanks a lot for your response.

> I'm not sure whether there are a tutorial, but it isn't very hard. Once you got make and base working (through Mingw and Msys), you need to download recent tarballs of gui and back. Either CVS snapshots or latest releases, it's up to you.

I have managed to get gui transferred and unpacked on the windows machine. It of course does not build without the libs you are mentioning.

> You can decompress those tarballs from msys without problem. But before compiling them, you will need a few libraries (with headers). IIRC, you'll need to have libjpeg,

I have this built now.

> libungif,

No idea what this is, but I will look it up.

> libpng 

Just tried to build libpng with

make ZLIBINC=/usr/include ZLIBLIB=/usr/lib -f scripts/makefile.linux
make install -f scripts/makefile.linux

or

make ZLIBINC=/usr/local/include ZLIBLIB=/usr/local/lib -f scripts/makefile.linux
make install -f scripts/makefile.linux

In both cases it complains that zlib.h cannot be found. Any idea?

Thanks!

Regards,

Andreas