Hi all, I'm new to cygwin and mingw, and UNIX style development in
general hence I would really appreciate some help here. I'm trying to
build the aspell (http://aspell.sourceforge.net) win32 binary using the
mingw compiler in the cygwin environment but am getting some linker
problems.
I got aspell to compile with some work. I have separate mingw and
cygwin installations on my computer. It has been a while, but I believe
I set up my paths so that I was using the mingw gcc compiler, but the
remaining tools (make, etc) were from the cygwin bin directory. The
link errors you are getting are from aspell trying to use posix
functions, which suggests you are compiling a cygwin version instead of
a mingw version of aspell.