Re: [Mingw-users] External packages & gettimeofday

[Tim T. <ra...@ed...>]

Hallo!

> In general, no. As far as I know, the gnuwin32 packages are built with
> mingw, and all I have used (all you mention, for instance) certainly
> work fine with mingw. Are you sure you didn't misplace the -l options
> on the gcc command line?

I used a configure script to find out the build options. The iconv test
had problems finding the right symbols. However since I installed some
alternatives at the same time, I'll retry with a clean install.

The GNUWin32 packages seem to like to install into a GnuWin32 directory.
What is the best way to handle this. Install them out side the
mingw/msys installation and fiddle around with aditional search pathes,
I should I install them directly to the msys/1.0 directory?

> That is odd. Did you run pkg-config from a completely normal MSYS
> shell (or cmd.exe) command line?

msys shell. Yes indeed this was strange. Even pkg-config --help did not
work. And this was a clean install (I archived a fresh installation
later in my proceeding :-)).

> The correct way is whatever works for you. There is no universally
> agreed package management system (in the style of dkpg or rpm) in use
> on Windows. Some software packages have several competing
> distributions (of the same versions, even). The official maintainers
> of some packages do support Windows, but choose to include support
> only for the Microsoft compilers, and then other people build the same
> stuff with gcc and get different DLL names. Some people repackage and
> combine stuff from other places (i.e. the exact same DLLs etc), but
> don't tell where they got them from, and use obscure version
> numbers. All this is a mess.

This really sounds like a mess :-) I do not want to install everthing
from sources because I'm possibly not the only user of my library and I
want to give an easy buld environment to other. So I would prefere
binaries packages. The GNUWin32 packages are close to optimal, since
they have an executable installer. Since I only need a limited subset of
libraries, I do not want to make my own distribution either. AFAIK all
packges I need already do compile, since there are packages floating
around - they just do not seem to hamonize.

I'll try again the relevant GNUWin32 packages.

Btw., does anybody has a simple implementation for gettimeofday based on
WIN32 API to offer?

-- 
Gruß...
       Tim.