Re: [DotGNU]Minor glitches in 0.6.2 on Windows

[Rhys Weatherley]

On Saturday 13 March 2004 03:31 am, Maciek wrote:

> 1 - It seems the autoconfig file wasn't prepared for running on pure
> mingw (i.e. not as part of cygwin) and didn't enforce using wsock32 for
> SOCKETLIBS. The objects that failed were 'ilverify.exe' and 'ilrun.exe'.
> I've fixed it by compiling those files by hand (with '-lwsock32')
> because I'm not familiar with using autoconf. If someone can fix it, it
> would also be a good idea to perhaps skip '-lm' if it's not necessary.
>
> 2 - Second problem occured in installation phase. The linker couldn't
> create a hard link from 'ilsize' to '/usr/local/bin/cli-unknown-size'
> claiming that 'ilsize' cannot be found, even though 'ilsize.exe' was in
> the directory. This problem repeated with other executables. What can be
> done about this issue? Is it Mingw problem?

I've fixed these two problems in CVS, but have no way to test them because I 
don't have mingw32, only cygwin.

Cheers,

Rhys.