Subject: Re: Cygwin builds?
From: Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Jul 24 2001 - 01:22:27 CDT
--- Mike Johnson <dev_randjohnson@yahoo.com> wrote: >
But.... That would mean spending lots of time in
> Windows! Sorry, this thing already crashed on me
> five
> times today, and as soon as I get this python
> program
> finished my company, I'm out...
>
> Anyway, I was just writing because I thought cygwin
> was the "accepted" method of building AW on Windows.
We use the cygwin environment: bash, make, etc but
currently only MSVC compiler/resource compiler since
that's what we've had and been able to get working
so far. I'm sure most of us would prefer that we
had a completely free environment way to build Abi on
Windows but we're not there yet ):
Andrew Dunbar.
> --- "Michael D. Pritchett"
> <mpritchett@attglobal.net>
> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Mike Johnson wrote:
> >
> > > Hello guys,
> > >
> > > I'm trying to build AW on Windows, in order to
> > help
> > > debug, using the cygwin stuff -- and I'm getting
> > the
> > > message "glib-config not found".
> > >
> > > I'm building with the make option
> > > ABI_OPT_CYGWIN_UNIX=1. If I do a make without
> that
> > > option, I get an error that cl wasn't found....
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> >
> > Mike -
> >
> > The ABI_OPT_CYGWIN_UNIX option has never been
> fully
> > implimented. As a
> > result it has never been maintained. One of the
> > problems with the CYGWIN
> > environment was the lack of a resource compiler,
> but
> > I am sure there were
> > others.
> >
> > cl is the MSVC compiler. If you have the time and
> > inclination to fix this
> > bug, patches are always welcomed.
> >
> > Cheers!
> >
> >
> > Michael D. Pritchett
> >
> >
>
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