[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#12932) windows printf doesn't allow reordering arguments

["Daniel Markstedt" <himasaram@xxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=12932 >


On 2005-12-25, at 10.17, Gilderoy wrote:

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> <URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=12932 >
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> Jason Short ha scritto:
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>> I meant compiling it in mingw+msys; there are instructions on the web
>> site but it's not trivial to do.  However there are a lot of people
>> following this ticket, at least some of which have already tried
>> recompiling linking to libutf8 (which this patch is supposed to do
>> automatically).  All that's needed is for one person to test it (both
>> with and without libutf8 present) and report the results.
>>
>> -jason
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>>
> I followed the web instruction but I cannot make it work, i'm not new 
> to
> linux, but, as far as I try, it was impossible to me to let it find
> gtk2.. I think the web instruction are in some way incomplite (I tried
> with mingw+msys, not with cygwin)
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>

I have the same experience with mingw+msys; it failed at configure 
because it couldn't "run the gtk test program" or whatever. Same with 
SDL libs. We must be overseeing something crucial when setting up the 
environment.

-Daniel