Friday, 08 July 2011
MSYS/MinGW support
Apparently there is considerable interest in supporting builds within MSYS/MinGW for Windows rather than cygwin or cross compiling MinGW from (e.g.) Linux.
The main difficulty in supporting this platform is that MinGW
doesn’t support fork/exec (or actually vfork/exec) and thus exec
support in the bootstrap jimsh is limited.
Fortunately, autosetup has few requirements of exec and these
limitations can be worked around, along with other differences
such as the use of backlashes in paths.
autosetup running under the MSYS bash shell
$ cd examples/typical $ ./configure No installed jimsh or tclsh, building local bootstrap jimsh0 Host System...i686-pc-mingw32 Build System...i686-pc-mingw32 C compiler... gcc -g -O2 C++ compiler... c++ -g -O2 Checking for stdlib.h...ok Checking for long long...ok Checking for sizeof long long...8 Checking for sizeof void *...4 Checking for sys/un.h...not found Checking for regcomp...not found Checking for waitpid...not found Checking for sigaction...not found Checking for sys_signame...not found Checking for sys_siglist...not found Checking for syslog...not found Checking for opendir...ok Checking for readlink...not found Checking for sleep...not found Checking for usleep...ok Checking for pipe...not found Checking for inet_ntop...not found Checking for getaddrinfo...not found Enabling UTF-8 Building static library Created config.h Created Makefile from Makefile.in