Re: [Mingw-users] compiling openldap under msys

[Luke D. <cod...@ho...>]

>From: "Jeremy Ardley" <je...@el...>
>To: <min...@li...>
>Subject: [Mingw-users] compiling openldap under msys
>Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2003 03:46:48 +0800
>
>Hi,
>
>I'm attempting to compile and run openladap 2.1.16 under mingw/msys
>
>I have previously managed to compile and run openldap under VC++ but one
>utility - slurpd does not compile in that environment, so I am trying
>mingw/msys.
>
>I have mingw 2.0.0.3 and msys 1.0.8.
>
>Under these I run ./configure in the openldap directory and I get an error:
>
>checking for select... no
>configure: error: select() required
>
>What do I need to do to get the configure to operate successfully ?
>

I don't think there is any simple answer to this. For software that uses 
OS-specific things like select(), the configure script will need to be 
modified to work on Windows, because MSYS doesn't help with actual porting 
of code (unlike Cygwin). I don't know anything about openldap but if it 
compiles with MSVC then it must have already been ported to Windows, so 
perhaps it would be easier to write a Makefile by hand than to modify the 
configure system. You could probably use the dsw2mak script to convert the 
MSVC project as a starting point (IIRC it is part of the mingw-utils 
package).

Luke


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