Re: [Dev-C++] Configure, make, and assorted flowers

[Hongli L. <h....@ch...>]

Abhijit Shylanath wrote:

>Most source packages I download need me to run 'configure' before 'make'.
>Are conigure's windows binaries available for download to run with
>GCC-ports? Where do I get them? I'm really confused. I downloaded bash
>sources, assuming I can compile them (maybe with modifications), using
>Cygwin or MingW, and don't know what to do... any help will be appreciated.
>Thanks.
>  
>

This is what I do:
1. Download and install Dev-C++ 5.
2. Download Cygwin and install everything related to development (bash, 
gcc, make, Cygwin's mingw environment, bison, yacc, sed, etc.)
3. Make Dev-C++'s Mingw the default compiler:
export CC='C:/Dev-C++/bin/gcc'
export CXX='C:/Dev-C++/bin/g++'
4. Tell configure that you're configuring for Mingw.
./configure --target=i586-pc-mingw32 --build=i586-pc-mingw32 
--host=i586-pc-mingw32
make install