[Mingw-users] How do I build MinGW ?

[Aaron G. <aar...@be...>]

Hi,

I need to rebuild MinGW. Are there instructions as to how to do this, as =
I cannot find any and there is nothing in the FAQ that I could find.

I tried, but I am not totally familar with GNU/Unix. I downloaded the =
CygWin port. And I tried :-

    cd i686-pc-mingw32
    make

or

    cd i686-pc-mingw32
    ../configure --target=3Di686-pc-mingw32
    make

both produce :-

    make[1]: *** [crtbegin.o] Error 1
    make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/i686-pc-mingw32/gcc'
    make: *** [all-gcc] Error 2

There seems to be a problem with the CRT base code configuration.

I cannot seem to configure the CRT runtime '' it is looking for =
Windows.h=20

    gcc -c -D__CRTDLL__ -U__MSVCRT__ -g -O2 =
-I../src/mingw-runtime-2.2-1/include -I.
        ./src/mingw-runtime-2.2-1/../w32api/include =
-I../src/mingw-runtime-2.2-1/../incl
        ude -nostdinc -nostdinc++ -iwithprefixbefore include -mno-cygwin =
../src/mingw-ru
        ntime-2.2-1/crt1.c -o crt1.o
    ../src/mingw-runtime-2.2-1/crt1.c:35:21: windows.h: No such file or =
directory

The install script does not seem to check for Windows.h's availability.

It just seems like a directory related problem.

what have I missed ?

I seem to be having a different but simular problem when building CygWin =
GCC.

I am using Cygwin and version 3.2-3 of GCC, MingW32 3.2-20020817-1

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Aaron Gray