Re: [Mingw-msys] A few problems with MSYS

[Earnie B. <ear...@ya...>]

David Bronke wrote:
> 
> > >
> > > And one last thing... I'm trying to build Crystal Space
> > > (crystal.sourceforge.net) with MSYS. It works fine with mingw32 under
> > > command.com, but when I run it under RXVT/SH, it says this:
> > >
> >
> >Sounds worthy.  I'll give it a try and see what happens.
> 
> OK, thanks... for that you have to download the cs-mingw build package. It
> includes the mentioned special version of make, as well as a fairly complete
> mingw-suite. Also, I tried using the bash from cs-mingw with RXVT, but it's
> compiled with Cygwin, so it doesn't want to work correctly. If you think you
> could help me with it, I can try collecting error messages...
> 

Not needed.

> >I'll put up a new snapshot of MSYS that'll have a different version of
> >gmake soon.  We'll see if that helps.  When using gmake make sure to set
> >the MAKE variable thusly `gmake MAKE=gmake'.
> >
> >If your Makefile uses the \ character then either double up or convert
> >to /.  The next version will allow a -win32 switch that may help.
> 

I've attached a version of make that accepts --win32 and requires the
msys-1.0.dll so put it in the msys\1.0\bin directory.  After that `gmake
MAKE=gmake --win32 all' just works.

> Yeah, that should help. The problem is, the whole makefile system for CS is
> written one way, and it would be a pain in the butt to change everything.
> (not to mention I really don't have a clue about how makefiles work... I
> read the makefile tutorial from gnu.org, and it didn't help.)
> 

I had no problems after I build and install the libz package from the
Cygwin site for MinGW, until I got to the point of needing luaswig. 
What is it?  Or how do I avoid it?

Earnie.