Re: win32 build failing

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 02:41:51PM +0100, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> 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.

Here are the links on that page (from lynx -dump):

   1. http://invisible-island.net/
   2. http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/#synopsis
   3. http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/#history
   4. http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/#ncurses_subsets
   5. http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/#downloads
   6. http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/#download_ncurses
   7. http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/#download_tack
   8. http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/#download_database
   9. http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/#download_mingw
  10. http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/announce.html
  11. http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html
  12. http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/man/tset.1.html
  13. http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/man/curs_termcap.3x.html
  14. http://invisible-island.net/ded/ded.html
  15. http://invisible-island.net/add/add.html
  16. http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/NEWS-index.html
  17. http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/NEWS.html
  18. http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/NEWS.gz
  19. http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses-Ada95.html
  20. http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses-examples.html
  21. http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/tack.html
  22. ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.tar.gz
  23. ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/5.9/
  24. http://invisible-island.net/datafiles/release/ncurses.tar.gz
  25. http://invisible-island.net/datafiles/current/ncurses.tar.gz

This is a link to the current source in the ftp area.
I upload a current tar ball each time I upload a patch.

  26. ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/tack.tar.gz
  27. http://invisible-island.net/datafiles/release/tack.tar.gz
  28. http://invisible-island.net/datafiles/current/tack.tar.gz
  29. http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/terminfo.src-contents.html
  30. http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/terminfo.src-history.html
  31. http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/terminfo.src.html
  32. http://invisible-island.net/datafiles/current/terminfo.src.gz
  33. http://invisible-island.net/datafiles/current/termcap.src.gz
  34. http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/tctest.html
  35. http://invisible-island.net/datafiles/release/mingw32.zip
  36. http://invisible-island.net/datafiles/release/mingw64.zip

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey <address@hidden>
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net

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