Re: Any active maintainers using MinGW/MSYS?

[Earnie Boyd]

Quoting "J. Grant" <address@hidden>:

> Hi!
>
> [...]
> > Building a native make with MSYS isn't the issue.  Using the native 
> > make within MSYS may be.
>
> Is there a document which describes the process of building an MSYS 
> runtime GNU Make executable? Or could you give it a try and run the 
> testsuite to check it for us..?

I've been very busy and recently on a week of vacation.  My intention 
is to create a MinGWiki page to describe it but basicly:

1) You need msysDVLPR alpha package from the Snapshot installed into 
the same prefix as MSYS.
2) You need to start an MSYS environment with ``MSYSTEM=MSYS start 
/msys''; this will give a new window where ``uname -s'' should begin 
with MSYS_ instead of MINGW32_.
3) Find all references in the source to __CYGWIN__ or __CYGWIN32__ and 
add or replace it with __MSYS__; if there are any.
4) You'll need to replace the delivered config.guess and config.sub 
with the ones in /usr/share/libtool; alternatively you can modify 
config.guess and config.sub in the package to add a filter for MSYS 
whereever you find one for CYGWIN.
5) configure && make.

Note, though the make version currently used in MSYS and CYGWIN is 
modified from the official release.  I do not know what the 
modifications are but some of them add a --win32 and --unix switch.

Earnie Boyd

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