Re: MinGW/MSYS/Cygwin frustrations

Hello Lyle,

To compile AYTTM on Windows you can not use cygwin, but only MingW.
Please refer to README.WIN32 for all instructions to handle setup.
Please note that you will have to use pre-compiled versions of the code
and there are some setup steps you will have to take.

I once had to reinstall my windows box and the instructions in
README.WIN32 worked just fine.

Please be sure to follow those exactly, download the latest source from
CVS and if that fails, please provide me with the actual failure. Please
do not worry about msys/mingw directories.

Oh! And once mingw is installed you should do everything from the mingw
shell for installation.

Best regards,
Edward Haletky

On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 15:13, Lyle Hanson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I really want to get Ayttm to compile on Windows, since I'm sitting in
> front of a Windows machine all day at work and have some things I'd like
> to contribute.  However, I've read pretty much all of the related info
> from the list and in the docs, and have not been able to get things going.
>  I'll try to summarize what I've done so far, and hopefully somebody can
> get me moving in the right direction.
> 
> My first attempt was to install Cygwin.  I got that running, along with
> the necessary libraries, and was really loving the Cygwin environment. 
> When it came time to build Ayttm, I got a few errors in ./configure that
> required additional libraries to be installed, and in the end it couldn't
> find glib-config.  I poked around, messed with paths and whatnot, and got
> configure to find it, but it would fail because it said it couldn't find a
> certain version of glib (which was funny, because manually running
> glib-config gave the proper libraries/version numbers).
> 
> So I thought the next easiest route would be to follow the instructions in
> the list archives regarding the MinGW stuff at
> http://blaniel.free.fr/mingw/mingw.html.  Went through that process,
> installed MinGW and MSYS (whose relationship and different directory trees
> left me a bit confused) and assorted libs, and find myself back at square
> one with ./configure telling me it can't find glib-config.  Well, seems
> like my shell is rooted in C:\msys while the instructions had me install
> glib (and all those other dependencies) under c:\MinGW.
> 
> To sum it up: "WTF?"
> 
> So I'd appreciate any help I could get with setting up either Cygwin
> (which I like more at this point) or MinGW/MSYS (which leaves me
> scratching my head a bit).  If you need any more details, we can go
> step-by-step.
> 
> Thanks a lot,
> Lyle
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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