RE: [Mingw-users] A little OT, but what the...

[Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>]

--- Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi@inspirepharm.com> wrote:
> 
> > Earnie Boyd wrote:
> > 
> > > --- Jeff Sturm <jeff.sturm@appnet.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > No problem.  (Can mingw build xfree86 yet?  I know there 
> > was a cygwin
> > > > project...)
> > > >
> > >
> > > I would think that to be a real chore.  
> 
> The first task should be getting imake right, once that is there
> patching libs and programs code should be easy, though time consuming.
> 

If someone wants to tackle the imake build we'll add it to the available
packages.

> >Cygwin doesn't 
> > build it cleanly yet.
> > > It takes me two to three hours to do the whole of xc but 
> > some executables don't
> > > make for some reason or another.  
> 
> 
> Which executables!  Everything SHOULD build.
> 

I'll elaborate later on cygwin-xfree.  Cursory view tells me it's in the fonts
section.  I also had to patch cygwin.rules for junk.c because the first
parameter to dllMain has changed from HANDLE to HINSTANCE.

> >I haven't investigated 
> > yet.  One of the
> > > headaches is that when I do `make World' it does a `make 
> > clean' by default and
> > > I haven't figured out how not to do that yet.
> 
> 
> You do not need to do a make World every time.  You can do
> make Makefiles then make makedepends from top level
> directory.  It will not run make clean.
> 
> 

Thanks, that will come in handy.

Cheers,

=====
Earnie Boyd
mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com

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