Re: Compiling slrn under minGW32

andrew <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.slrn.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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

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