[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#8651) Cygwin -mms-bitfields

["Marko Lindqvist" <marko.lindqvist@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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


  Oh dear.

  You may close this ticket with status "resolved/not-a-bug".

  1. Cygwin configure method works just fine.

  2. Compiling programs to be used with cygwin GTK+-2 does not require 
"-mms-bitfields" compiler flag - opposite in fact; it breaks things.


  All this time my problems were due to different gtk+ runtimes 
installed to my windows, originally installed for different non-cygwin 
versions of freeciv. Once I removed them from my PATH (so I can't use 
non-cygwin freeciv versions at the moment) and installed all the cygwin 
packages freeciv compilation required, everything started to work.

  Hmm... since there currently is a lot of documentation mentioning how 
those third party gtk+ runtimes are reuired for mingw32 compilations, 
maybe it would be good thing to make clear that it's only mingw32 that 
requires them, cygwin versions do not work with them.


  - Caz