Re: win32 build failing

[Michal Suchanek]

On 22 March 2013 11:57, Thomas Dickey <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 10:50:03AM +0100, Michal Suchanek wrote:
>> On 22 March 2013 00:22, Thomas Dickey <address@hidden> wrote:
>> > On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 07:55:26PM +0100, Michal Suchanek wrote:
>>
>> >> The build fails to link executables so I am not very surprised that
>> >> the library does not work when trying to load it into a program
>> >> dynamically.
>> >>
>> >> BTW the readme recommends to use LIB.EXE while there is dlltool:
>> >> http://mirrors.zoreil.com/webclub.kcom.ne.jp/ma/colinp/win32/dll/make.html
>> >
>> > I use dlltool in the cross-compiles.  Originally Juergen's 
>> > build-instructions
>> > on mingw used lib.exe, but the revised instructions are more involved.
>>
>> README.MinGW says that the LIB.EXE tool is required to build dlls.
>>
>> If that's no longer used by the makefiles it's a bug in the docs I guess.
>
> hmm - that comment is no longer in the current sources - perhaps you're
> trying to build with 5.9-release rather than 5.9-current.

Yes, I am building 5.9 release.

There does not seem to eb any VCS link on the ncurses page.

Thanks

Michal