Re: Compiling GNU-RCS on Windows

Hi Hugh,

Thank you for your response. Maybe I should explain why I needed to  
know how to compile GNU-RCS on Windows. I am currently using CS-RCS  
front-end on Windows and CVS on Linux for accessing the RCS repository  
running on a Windows system. The problem I am encountering is that  
when I when I check-in a file with an underscore(_), tilde(~), or  
dash(-) using CVS, CS-RCS is display an error message when I try to  
view it on CS-RCS.
The displayed error is as follows:
             file-name,v - unknown character `-'
                          or
             file_name,v - unknown character `_'
                          or
             filename~,v - unknown character `~',
depending on the character in the file name.
I then traced the "unknown character" in the RCS source code and find  
it the rcslex.c file. Inside a switch statement on line 573 and 574,  
there's cases for COLON, DIGIT, LETTER, Letter, PERIOD and SPACE, but  
not for IDCHAR. Sincer '_', '~' and '-' are all grouped as IDCHAR, and  
IDCHAR is missing from those case statements, I thought it could be  
the problem. So, I wanted to be able to compile and test it first to  
confirm my assumption before reporting it as a bug if it is a bug,  
that's why I needed to find out if someone had compile RCS in Windows  
before.

Just to explain the problem a bit further, using CS-RCS on its own is  
not a problem, file names with the mentioned characters can be  
checked-in and out without any problems. Also, using CVS on its own is  
not a problem, checking in and out works fine, in fact CVS does show  
any problems at all. If a file is added using CS-RCS, checked-out  
using CVS and checked-in using CVS, CS-RCS gives the error message. If  
a file is imported for the first time using CVS, CS-RCS doesn't have a  
problem, only when the file is checked-in using CVS then CS-RCS gives  
the error message.

Your help will be appreciated

Sunny

Quoting Hugh Sasse <[email protected]>:

>
>
> On Fri, 26 Sep 2008, Sunny wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I would like to know if anyone has compiled GNU RCS successfully on Windows
>> and how did they do it? I have been trying to use MinGW and Cygwin   
>> but I keep
>
> Well, Cygwin comes with RCS anyway, so I wonder if that would suffice...
>
>> on getting these following errors:
>>
>
> Is there a configure step you can use?  Conventionally with GNU there
> is...
>
>> $ make -f pc/Makefile mingw32
>> make all -f pc/Makefile MINGW32="" OS="nt" \
>>        CC="gcc" CCFLAGS="-O -D__WIN32__ -D__32BIT__ -DRCSDLL" \
>>        LDFLAGS="-s -o ./" O=".o" A=".a" AR="ar" \
>>        DLDFLAGS="-ladvapi32 -s -o ./"
>> make[1]: Entering directory `/cygdrive/c/Documents and
>> Settings/KabiniS/Desktop/
>> RCS/rcs-5.7/src'
>> gcc ci.o libinit.o rcslib.a -s -o ./ci.exe
>> ci.o:ci.c:(.text+0x78): undefined reference to `___imp_suffixes'
>> ci.o:ci.c:(.text+0x16b): undefined reference to `___imp_interactiveflag'
>> ci.o:ci.c:(.text+0x178): undefined reference to `___imp_quietflag'
>> ci.o:ci.c:(.text+0x35f): undefined reference to `___imp_suffixes'
>> ci.o:ci.c:(.text+0x3c9): undefined reference to `___imp_nerror'
>> ci.o:ci.c:(.text+0x46d): undefined reference to `___imp_Head'
>
> this looks to me like a missing library, but I can't see what.
>> .
>> .
>> .
>> ci.o:ci.c:(.text+0x1a24): undefined reference to `___imp_Expand'
>> ci.o:ci.c:(.text+0x1a7d): undefined reference to `___imp_Expand'
>> ci.o:ci.c:(.text+0x1b57): undefined reference to `___imp_ciklog'
>> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>> make[1]: *** [ci.exe] Error 1
>>
>> Any help would be appreciated.
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> Sunny
>
>         Hugh
>



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