Re: [bug-patch] Building on mingw

[Bruno Haible]

Martin Panter wrote:
> 1. The gnulib getopt stuff seemed to be missing getopt_int.h. I seem
> to have fixed this by copying the file straight from gnulib.
> 
> 2. Also in the gnulib stuff, the xstrndup function needs strndup

While the use of gnulib without gnulib-tool is possible in theory,
it requires a lot of manual, tedious checking and bookkeeping: to verify
that all the modules listed among the dependencies have been included,
and that all respective autoconf macros have been invoked. Mistakes
in this process introduce compilation or link problems on some platforms.
Really, the recommended way to use gnulib's source code is through
gnulib-tool.

Documentation is at http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/
Feel free to contact the bug-gnulib list if you have questions.

Bruno