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

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

On Sun, 25 Jul 2004, caveman wrote:

> Vasco Alexandre Da Silva Costa wrote:
> >On Sun, 25 Jul 2004, Jeremy Adams wrote:
> >
> >>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):
> >
> >http://www.freeciv.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=210
>
> 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.

The MinGW tools from BitWalk I mentioned in that thread have zlib:
    - gettext-0.11.5-2003.02.01-1
    - libiconv-1.8.0-2003.02.01-1
    - pdcurses-2.6.0-2003.07.21-1
    - bison-1.875
    - flex-2.5.4a
    - gperf-2.7.2
    - indent-2.2.9
    - libgw32c-0.4
    - libpng-1.2.4-1
    - libtool-1.5.4
    - openssl-0.9.7c
    - regex-0.12
    - termcap-1.3.1
    - texinfo-4.6
    - tiff-3.5.7
    - wget-1.9-1
    - which-2.13
->  - zlib-1.1.4
    - ctags-5.5.2
    - jpeg-6b
    - db-1.85 (built by bitWalk)
    - gmp-4.1.3 (built by bitWalk)
    - Zip 2.3 (built by bitWalk)

Are you certain you installed that package?

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Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa @ Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa