Re: Hints: how to setup an environment to compile on Windows

Leonardo Francesconi <[email protected]> Thu, 28 Apr 2011 13:42:04 +0200
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What do you mean with "is not granted"? What kind of problems there could
be?

2011/4/28 Cristiano Sumariva <[email protected]>

> Just to remember that this build on windows using cygwin requires GPL
> license ( compiled against cygwin1.dll ).
> If you intend to use it on a commercial software that is not granted by the
> cygwin license. Well, that was what I understood from the text.
> Now I remembered why was trying to build it on msys inspite of cygwin.
>
> I needed also to install some cygwin packages to get some additional dlls:
> pcre, glib, iconv, intl.
> But I think if you use the package manager from cygwin it will download all
> this dependencies.
>
>
> 2011/4/28 Leonardo Francesconi <[email protected]>
>
>> I think I took them from here!
>> http://artfiles.org/cygwin.org/pub/cygwinports/release/mdbtools/
>>
>>
>> 2011/4/28 Dmitry Nikitin <[email protected]>
>>
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> Leonardo, please send me windows ports mdbtools in exe or dll for "just
>>> in case".
>>> Thanks, Dmitry
>>>
>>> On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 16:19:23 +0200
>>> Leonardo Francesconi <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> > I do have executable files (.exe and .dll) of some (not all) mdbtools
>>> > utilities.
>>> > I tried to compile them with mingW32 and Cygwin, but I failed; luckily
>>> I
>>> > found them compiled somewhere in the web, if you need I can link or
>>> send
>>> > them to you.
>>> >
>>> > By the way, do you speak Italian Cristiano?
>>> >
>>> > 2011/4/27 Cristiano Sumariva <[email protected]>
>>> >
>>> > > I would like to compile mdbtools on windows like a dll to bind it to
>>> PHP as
>>> > > extension.
>>> > > I would like try this on a Eclipse IDE using the gnu C compiler
>>> ported to
>>> > > windows ( mingW32 http://www.mingw.org ).
>>> > > The main reason to me do this is to port a small windows tool to
>>> convert
>>> > > MDB file to DBF Unix on both ways.
>>> > > That is why I using PHP language since I will have interpreters on
>>> both OS.
>>> > > And on Linux side my option is to use this library.
>>> > > This is also why I do not want to use windows readers for the access
>>> file.
>>> > >
>>> > > Unfortunely I do not know how to create change configure scripts but
>>> If
>>> > > someone point me the way I can read instructions.
>>> > > Then try run configure under cygwin command line.
>>> > > I downloaded the branch 0.6PRE from CVS into a Eclipse Project.
>>> > > Or I do not know if would be better create an standalone GNUMakefile
>>> for
>>> > > build on windows and just run make command.
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > >
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