[Freeciv-Dev] Re: building libpng on MinGW?

[Vasco Alexandre Da Silva Costa <vasc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2 Nov 2003, Raimar Falke wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 07:06:10PM -0800, Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
> > Trying to figure out The Right Way on MinGW made me tear out more hair.
>
> Even it is not helpful I have to comment that this shows that it looks
> like it is non-trivial to add a unix-ish development environment to
> windows. It looks like the problems are not primary in freeciv but in
> the basic unix emulation software.
>
> I have used cygwin for quite some time as a user (I didn't compile one
> C program but wrote some python scripts and some java) and was quite
> satisfied. No real problem. It got ugly when you had to call native
> windows binaries in script which expected the other path syntax.
>
> I can always ask why do you do this. But I'm sure that you have your
> reasons to spend your time on this. If you success please report back
> your findings.

FWIW I have both MingGW/MSYS and Cygwin installed, as well as libpng,
libz, SDL. I regularly use it to compile DOSBox CVS so I can play Master
of Magic. :-)

I only use Cygwin to run autogen.sh. Cannot seem to find a decent native
autoconf and automake.

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Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa @ Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa