#12 Compatibility with the new Mingw

[Marcelo Taube]

Well, I would love allegro to be updated in order to be easy
to use with the current verion of Mingw.
Mingw now comes with msys which basically gives the
programmer with an unix/linux like shell.
That means a lot of things.... in the msys shell we no longer
need the MINGDIR variable since mingdir is always " / "
Also it would be better to use the " ./configure " method
instead of " fix.bat mingw32 " in order to compile allegro for
mingw.
The documentation should be updated since the current
version of gcc is 3.2
That's all, i guess it would not be that difficult.
So i hope you'll do it.
Thank U
Marcelo

[Eric Botcazou]

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I agree, but I think we also need to support MinGW without
MSYS. Note that the current Allegro 4.1.x flawlessly builds
with MSYS:
./fix.sh mingw32 --quick
make
make install

And MINGDIR is automatically set by the MSYS init script to
the compiler directory, which may not be "/".

[Eric Botcazou]

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The partial support for MSYS has been backported from the
4.1.x series to the 4.0.x series as of the 4.0.3-beta1 release.

[Eric Botcazou]

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We have also come to the conclusion that using the Unix
configure machinery
for Allegro on MSYS and Cygwin would lead to maintenance
headaches and buy
us basically nothing. We may reconsider the question in the
future though.