[Freeciv-Dev] Re: configure won't find libpng on MinGW

["Brandon J. Van Every" <vanevery@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

From: Andreas Kemnade [mailto:andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf
>
> -mno-cygwin changes the default include path, the default library
> path, and the libraries linked in by default so that nothing of the
> unix emulation of cygwin is used.
>
> You should never mix things compiled with and without -mno-cygwin.

Ouch!  Well that makes it decidedly non-trivial for a MinGW newbie to
set up a valid environment then.  zlib and libpng are not shipped with
the current MinGW / MSYS / msysDTK distributions, I had to grab 'em and
compile 'em.

Another gotcha is thinking you can do this with Cygwin when you cannot.
The directions could stand to emphasize that MinGW and Cygwin are not
the same thing, and that you should get MinGW from www.mingw.org .

I nuked MinGW and started over, to try to get things right.  I put
"CC=gcc -mno-cygwin" in my Windows 2000 environment so that it is never
forgotten.

Sadly, libpng is still not detected.


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Brandon Van Every           Seattle, WA

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