[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#8651) Cygwin gtk client build requires -mms-bitfields

["Per Inge Mathisen" <per@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8651 >

On Sun, 2 May 2004, Marko Lindqvist wrote:
>  > mkdir fciv_build_mms_bitfields
>  > cd fciv_build_mms_bitfields
>  > export CFLAGS="-mms-bitfields"
>  > ../freeciv_src/autogen.sh
>  > make
>
> produced client starts ok.

autoconf should use -mmbs-bitfields if it detects cygwin/mingw. Does
autoconf detect mingw for you? (Do you even use mingw in cygwin?)

> I have no idea how to cleanly check need for '-mms-bitfields' in
> configure.

I think we should check for cygwin/mingw, and add it if they are found.

> And if we are to support pre 3.0 gcc, we need to use
> '-fnative-struct' instead. (AFAIK neither works for both gcc 2.x and 3.x)

A decision was made to not support pre-3.0 versions of gcc on the win32
platform.

  - Per