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

Hi

At 19:01 21/10/2004, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Olivier wrote:
> > 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).
>
>I doubt it's related to setting CC and CXX -- this DLL is used if you
>enable multithreading, you can get rid of it by configuring wxWidgets
>with --disable-threads (and thus not using -mthreads flag, I think).

Yes you are right. I messed up the cleaning of various things on my work 
machine.


> > /usr/local/lib/wx/include/msw-2.4' is found. Somehow, the detection
> > process in configure does not get this right.
>
>If you could investigate this and find out what exactly fails, it
>would be most welcome.

The problem lies in the configure script, starting at line 4360. It uses 
wx-config with the --cxxflags that on my system returns this:

-I/usr/local/lib/wx/include/msw-2.4 -D__WXMSW__ -fno-pcc-struct-return

Problem is that all that is found in /usr/local/lib/wx/include/msw-2.4 is 
the setup.h file, the required files are in /usr/local/include.


>Nothing -- you just didn't know the strip utility that strips
>debugging information from binaries and about the fact that there's
>always at least some debugging information in binaries produced by
>gcc and/or GNU binutils.

Gee, that's quite a shock to me. After running strip, the exe file is back 
to a more reasonnable size. Thanks for that ;-)

Just another question: Is there a special target for the make command so 
that it generates the setup exe file automatically? I have InnoSetup 
installed and it's quite easy to get the iss script to work, but I would 
think that there is a way to run this via the makefile, meaning that I 
don't have to create the BUILD-mingw directory.

Cheers

Olivier Sannier 



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