[poedit-users] Compiling with MingW: What am I doing wrong?

Hi

I've been compiling poEdit with MinGW/MSYS and done the following:

First, Berkeley DB:
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mkdir build_mingw
cd build_mingw
../dist/configure --disable-debug --enable-mingw --prefix=/usr/local
make
make install
make clean

I know the step about the build_mingw directory is not required, but it 
seems cleaner to me this way.

Second, wxWindows

./configure --with-msw --disable-shared --disable-debug
make
make install
make clean

Third and last, poEdit:

./configure --enable-semistatic --disable-debug 
CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib CC=mingw32-gcc 
CXX=mingw32-c++
make
make install

Setting the values of CC and CXX is not really required, but as it turns 
out, doing it means that the final exe does not need mingwm10.dll to 
run, which is good (to me).

Everything compiles ok, but I have two problems:

1. When I run poEdit, it complains about a missing bitmap in the 
resources. Carefully looking at the build log, it turns out the resource 
compiler can't find the wx/msw/wx.rc file. To fix that, I had to 
manually edit the makefile in poEdit/src to add '--include-dir 
/usr/local/include' everywhere '--include-dir 
/usr/local/lib/wx/include/msw-2.4' is found. Somehow, the detection 
process in configure does not get this right. But this problem is not 
really major.

2. The final exe file size is 12 M. Yes, you read well, it's 3 times as 
big as the one in the distribution. I tried to turn off static linking, 
but it doesn't change much (2M saved) and adds a dependency upon the 
wxWindows DLL.

What did I do wrong there? I'm on a Windows XP French Professional 
edition, if that's of any help.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers

Olivier Sannier


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