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2002-03-26 Richard Frith-Macdonald <rfm@gnu.org>
* Documentation/README.MinGW: Updated to reflect current state
of the port and of the MSYS stuff.
Fri Mar 22 16:58:33 2002 Nicola Pero <n.pero@mi.flashnet.it>
* Documentation/install.texi: Tidied part on --disable-import.

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@ -21,10 +21,10 @@ providing a minimal set of tools needed to build programs using MingGW.
If you wish to build for MinGW by cross-compiling from a Cygwin
environment, please read README.cygwin instead.
The base library is not completely ported to run on MinGW yet, but most
stuff works, including networking/distributed objects.
Probably background file handle operations (other than networking) and
advanced parts of NSTask code do not currently work.
The base library is only recently ported to run on MinGW. While most
stuff works, including networking/distributed objects, there are probably
bits that have been overlooked or are untested as yet. The only *known*
areas of code not yet ported are the zlib, SSL and XML extensions.
PRELIMINARIES
@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ to be a system administrator on your machine to install this software.
You should be able to use it without changing/setting any special
configuration options. The one thing to remember is that the checkbox
to select whether to use unix line terminators instead of windows/DOS
line terminators should be se to the unix option.
line terminators should be set to the unix option.
Installing and setting up MINGW and MSYS
@ -56,12 +56,16 @@ and install it.
Next, download MinGW-1.1 or later from
http://sourceforge.net/project/mingw
and extract this into c:/msys/version-number/mingw
This will unpack the mingw source tree within the msys hierarchy.
Unpacking mingw into the correct location within msys will ensure that the
path set up in /etc/profile in msys picks up the mingw tools too.
Remove the mingw make.exe file - mingw make is not good.
Rename the msys gmake.exe to make.exe, so we will use this make program.
You may need to edit /mingw/include/winsock2.h to change the size of the
sa_data field in the sockaddr structure from 14 to 22 ... this is because
newer versions of windoze have changed the layout of this structure.
This modification is needed to be able to correctly determine the
network interface details for your machine.
It's a good idea to remove the libobjc.a and include/objc header that come
with gcc (gcc -v for location) so that they are not accidentally found
@ -70,10 +74,9 @@ instead of the libobjc DLL that you will compile below.
Now you can double click on the c:/msys/version-number/bin/sh program to
open a window containing a shell.
In the shell window, type '. /etc/profile' to set up your path.
You may also want to set the HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH environment variables
to point to the home directory you wish to work from (though the defaults
may be ok for you).
At this point you may want to set the HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH environment
variables to point to the home directory you wish to work from (though
the defaults may be ok for you).
NB. This home directory for building software must *not* contain spaces.
(aside - MSYS uses the unix-style HOME environment variable, but windows
programs, including GNUstep programs under windows, use the HOMEDRIVE and
@ -107,8 +110,8 @@ In the GNUstep-make (core/make) package, do 'configure
install the GNUstep system in an alternative location, but it is
important that the path you use is a full windows style path with a
drive letter and colon at the start of it. This is because, while the
msys shell and other tools automatically map unix style paths to
windows paths, the mingw compiler does not!
msys shell and other msys tools automatically map unix style paths to
windows paths, other windows tools including the mingw compiler do not!
IMPORTANT: The msys tools all handle unix style paths and map them to
windows style paths internally. The mingw tools only handle windows
@ -120,7 +123,7 @@ with configure. The configure script may use the msys shell and other
tools to locate binaries etc, and the msys tools will supply those
locations as unix style paths. If the configure script then causes
those paths to be built in to makefiles, the make process is likely to
fall over.
fall over.
Now you can type 'make install' to build and install the make package.
@ -129,7 +132,6 @@ environment. The environment for building software is now completely
set up, but for ease of use later, you might set up a script to be
used to set up any new shell windows you create. Something like this:
. /etc/profile
export HOMEDRIVE=C:
export HOMEPATH=/home/myname
export GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_DIR=C:/GNUstep/System
@ -145,16 +147,9 @@ You should get the latest ffcall archive from
http://ftp.gnustep.org/pub/gnustep/libs. Currently this is
ffcall-1.8d.tar.gz
Ignore any other instructions for builting this ...
Ignore any other instructions for building this ...
First, rename the msys/version-number/bin/ln.exe file ... this
program creates 'symbolic links' using windows 'shortcuts' ... but
some tools like the compiler won't follow them - so renaming this
program forces configure scripts to use the 'cp' program instead. If
you don't do this, the configure scripts for ffcall will produce
makefiles which won't work properly!
Next, in the shell window in which you have set up your GNUstep
First, in the shell window in which you have set up your GNUstep
environment, type
RANLIB=touch ./configure --prefix=`$GNUSTEP_MAKEFILES/fixpath.sh -u $GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT`
@ -169,7 +164,7 @@ it simply by typing:
make install
Finally, rename the ln.exe program back into place.
Building and installing libobjc
@ -186,6 +181,8 @@ make install
This should build and install the ObjectiveC runtime and headers for you.
Optional libraries
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