Re: [Mingw-users] How to compile MySQLC++

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

Pac wrote:
> 
> Earnie> and I'll suggest the snapshot, see http://www.mingw.org/download.shtml. 
> Earnie>  If you have a .dsw VC++ style project file then you execute the 
> Earnie> dsw2mak gawk script you can find in the mingw-utils package.  If you 
> 
> what does this script do ?
> 
<quote>
# Features:
#   - generation of GUI applications (including resource files),
#     DLLs, console applications and static libraries
#   - translations of the most common compiler and linker options
#   - conversion of workspace files (.dsw) and all associated
#     projects files (.dsp) generating all necessary Makefiles
#   - handling of nested !IF, !ELSEIF and !ENDIF maintaining the
#     same build configurations as the original project
#   - automatic generation of the dependencies
#
</quote>

And in case it's not obvious enough, it generates a file for make to 
execute upon.  So for foo.dsp you get foo.mak after executing this script.

Earnie.