Re: [Dev-C++] MINGW 2.0.0-2 possible incompatibility with Dev-C++

[Luigi S. <gi...@li...>]

At 23.17 09/06/02 +0300, <no...@ho...> wrote:
>I have the impression that the makefile mechanism has changed in MINGW 
>2.0.0-2 making it incompatible with Dev-C++. So if you want to use MINGW 
>from within Dev-C++ (and not from the command line for example) you 
>probably have to wait for a next release of Dev-C++ which incorporates 
>MINGW 2.0.0.. I hope Colin or Hongli can comment something on this (or 
>someone who knows the GCC/MINGW makefiles stuff like Luigi).
>
>Ioannis
>

Hi Ioannis

Thanks for the link to latest MinGW package.

Hope gcc 3.2 is stable (unlike previous 3.1 version).

In order to see what was wrong, I've downloaded MinGW 2.0.0-2 (the whole 
package) and version 4.9.5.0 of Dev-C++ (of course, just the IDE as I 
wanted to use
it with gcc 3.2), next I installed both.

Excuse me if I sound a bit tedious writing down all the steps, this will 
make it easy for you to trace my mistakes.

Here is what I did:

- installed MinGW in the directory "c:\mingw"
   this means I clicked on the package, which is an executable, and chose 
destination

- installed Dev-C++ in the directory "c:\devcpp"
   again package is an executable so: click and choose destination

- started the new Dev-C++ and pointed it to the new MinGW compiler:
   Tools->Compiler Options: "Directories" tab
      Binaries     = c:\mingw\bin
      Libraries    = c:\mingw\lib
      C Includes   = c:\mingw\include
      C++ Includes = c:\mingw\include\c++ and c:\mingw\include

Then I tried to make the executable of a single source file program 
(classic "Hello world") there was no problem.

When I attempted to make the executable of a multi source file program, 
that is when I compiled a project, I experienced an error.

According to my little experience, what we are dealing with is a tiny bug 
in the MinGW package. In fact the small documentation one is allowed to 
read while installing MinGW (BTW, it is found in "c:\mingw\doc\MinGW", in 
the form of RTF files), tells that the package contains a port of GNU 
"make" 3.79, which has been renamed "mingw32-make.exe". Well, I checked the 
directory "c:\mingw\bin" and was not able to see "mingw-make.exe" nor 
"make.exe". I concluded that the file has been omitted when the package was 
put together.
At this points it seems that: when Dev-C++ calls for "make" ... nobody 
answers :)

My solution: I've copied old GNU "make" 3.77 (which I have got together 
with my first Dev-C++ version) in the directory "c:\mingw\bin". Now 
everything works.

Probably you'll want to tell MinGW developers that current version of their 
package lacks the "make" utility.

--
gisan