Re: [Mingw-users] Compiling MinGW in MinGW (on windows of course)

[Rob P. <rob...@gm...>]

On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 06:58:06 -0500 (EST), Earnie Boyd
<ea...@us...> wrote:
> 
> <quote who="Rob Pollock">
> > On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 09:22:09 -0500 (EST), Earnie Boyd
> > <ea...@us...> wrote:
> >>
> >> <quote who="Rob Pollock">
> >
> > Regarding failed attempt to compile mingw-runtime on mingw on windows
> >> >
> >> > $ make
> >> > gcc -c -D__CRTDLL__ -U__MSVCRT__ -g -O2 -I ./../w32api/include
> >> > -I./include -I./../include -nostdinc -iwithprefixbefore include
> >> > crt1.c -o crt1.o
> >> > crt1.c:21:21: windows.h: No such file or directory
> >> > ..bunch of stuff missing from windows.h the compiler is complaining
> >> > about...
> >> >
> >
> >>
> >> Try
> >>
> >> make W32API_INCLUDE='-I /mingw/include'
> >>
> >> Earnie
> >>
> >
> > I tried this; it didn't work.  The Makefile (default) actually has
> > a line in it which redefines W32API_INCLUDE to point to the wrong
> > directory,
> > so that's why.
> >
> 
> All I can say is, it worked for me.  I just gave it a whurl from the tarball.
> 
> ./configure --prefix=/mingw
> make W32API_INCLUDE='-I /mingw/include'
> 
> Note: You need to change /mingw/include if you have a different path to
> windows.h.
> 

Doh!  no it was the correct path for W32API_INCLUDE but the >wrong< --prefix
for configure.

I just did ./configure, not ./configure --prefix=/mingw

working now... Thanks very much!!!

Rob.