mingw32 build feedback

On 11/5/07, John E. Davis <[email protected]> wrote:
> Great.  After some minor modifications, I sucessfully used the
> cross-compiler to build a mingw32 version of slrn.  The changes are
> available in the repository as pre0.9.9-42.

Here's some feedback on building pre0.9.9-43 on MinGW using the latest
slang.  Native compile using the .g32 makefile:

- make clean rule had an "-rf *o" which I deleted
- the chkslang line was disabled by an "echo", which I removed
- the SLRN_CONF_DIR has an slrn (not slrnpull) tag, but it's not used
in building slrn.exe
- building slrnpull fails because it needs the SLRN_CONF_DIR flag.
Question: Will SLRN_CONF_DIR accept "."  or "" to maintain prevous
behaviour?

Personal note: while it was obvious that I needed to tell the Makefile
where slang was located, why not leave the "two up" path as in all
previous releases so that slrn can build without tweaking the
Makefile?

Snag: while everything seems to run fine using an slrnpull spool, this
new version of slrn on Windows does not want to load Emmanuele Bassi's
latest identity.sl macro, but has no problem on Slackware.  It fails
in the first register_hook near the end of the file.  If I remove the
"1==", everything loads fine.  Other macros with similar register_hook
calls have no problem, only this one.  slrn does not spit out a
meaningful error message to narrow down the error, but if you send me
a patch with some debugging printfs or othe suggestions to get an
error message, I'll be happy to help you solve the problem since it
seems to not happen on linux.

Lastly, I'm happy to report that the intermittent crash I had with the
pl2 and pl2.1 informal releases is gone with pre0.9.9-43.  I had
narrowed it down to a stack problem in mime.c (pointer corruption
followed by a free), but there seem to have been lots of code changes
in there, which look like they fixed the problem.

Cheers!

R/T

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