Re: Compiling slrn under minGW32
andrew <[email protected]>
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On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 02:06:44AM -0400, John E. Davis wrote: > andrew <[email protected]> wrote: > > My copy of mingw is actually installed under 'MinGW' rather than > > 'mingw'. I left the installation directories as quoted above believing > > that under windows the case did not matter. So is slsh actually > > looking for /mingw/local/etc/slsh.rc and choking on > > /MinGW/local/etc/slsh.rc? > > I was unable to reproduce this using a fresh install of mingw32, which > was installed under /MinGW. I did run into other problems associated > with the lack of copy.exe, as well as a problem associated with > cmd.exe regarding '=' as whitespace. I made some minor changes to the > mingw32 build scripts, which you find in slang pre2.1.4-57. Thanks for this John. I have actually blundered through and produced a working version of the svn slrn for windows thanks to the advice of yourself and Thomas: MID: <[email protected]> But tomorrow I shall uninstall all this work and start from scratch including the newer S-Lang and rationalise things like the required environment variable, installation paths + take notes as I go for a possible 'walkthrough' in the future. Andrew Andrew -- Do you think that's air your breathing now? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/