[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Who is configuring and compiling the Windows native client?

[Andreas Kemnade <akemnade@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Brandon J. Van Every writes:

 > - what MinGW and MSYS are you using?  I'm using the following files from
 > http://www.mingw.org/download.shtml
 > MinGW-3.1.0-1.exe
 > MSYS-1.0.9.exe
 > msysDTK-1.0.1.exe

I have always only used the cygwin stuff. Or used a cross compiler
from linux or solaris (there is a debian package for that)
There is a mingw32 package for cygwin which enables the -mno-cygwin
flag.
I have never used anything from www.mingw.org. But using msys and
friends
should not be wrong.

I have always used libz and libpng from source (from ftp.freeciv.org)
 and never done a make install in their source directories 

Either I have moved the headers and the libs to the right place
manually or added the paths by -L and -I flags.



Almost all information about the mingw32 build is in
the INSTALL file in the freeciv source.

Greetings
Andreas Kemnade