[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Compiling freeciv using MSYS, MinGW, and Eclipse 3.0

[caveman <c4v3m4n@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Vasco Alexandre Da Silva Costa wrote:

> On Sun, 25 Jul 2004, Jeremy Adams wrote:
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> > Well, so far I have managed to get CVS set up and working in Eclipse 3.0
> > so that I can now keep a copy of freeciv CVS updated on my Windows XP
> > box. I have also downloaded and set paths to MinGW, MSYS, gettext, and
> > zlib. I tried running autogen.sh using msys and the instructions found
> > in the INSTALL doc to build for a Win32 system, but come up with these
> > errors (the below output comes directly from the msys console window):
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> http://www.freeciv.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=210
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> Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa @ Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa
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Yes, I know about that thread, but I still get the error about not 
having zlib when using your build instructions on that thread. I think 
perhaps I've got zlib configured incorrectly somehow and was hoping 
Frank could explain in a bit more detail how he got his to compile using 
zlib.
-Jeremy