Re: [Mingw-users] Help with automake setup

[Earnie B. <ea...@us...>]

On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 3:06 AM, Blum, Jon <jon...@or...> wrote:

> Hello all -- unfortunate newbie question time; if someone could just point
> me to someplace in the archives where this is answered, I'd really
> appreciate it!
>
> I've just been abruptly thrown into the deep end trying to build encfs4win
> using MinGW.  For a bit of context:  I used to be a fairly solid UNIX
> developer...  in 1997.  Since then I've been thoroughly Windows-based --
> but I'm still the most other-platform-savvy developer in the small R&D
> company where I'm working, so I'm stuck with the job.  Unfortunately, that
> doesn't make me savvy enough to get the configure and make scripts for
> encfs4win working properly under MinGW...  my last attempt literally ended
> up sending the build into an infinite loop.
>
> As far as I can tell, the encfs4win package needs automake, autoconf and
> so forth to build.  However, I'm not clear which version of these packages
> I should be installing -- MinGW or MSYS -- and I could really use a pointer
> to the appropriate install instructions!  (I've checked the archives, but
> so far have only found mentions of the instructions rather than the
> instructions themselves.)
>
> For what it's worth:  the ultimate aim is to build a Windows EXE and/or
> DLL, which doesn't rely on the MSYS DLLs, so it's *probably* the MinGW
> version of these tools I need to install.  Please let me know which way I
> should proceed.
>

mingw-get install autoconf
mingw-get install automake
mingw-get install libtool

These commands will get you the latest versions built for the mingw32 build
system.

cd /path/to/encfs4win/source
autoreconf -i


>
> A complicating factor:  I'd prefer to get this thing building in the
> NetBeans IDE...  so if that's just impossible, it'd be good to know now.
>  (NetBeans doesn't support MinGW make, only MSYS make, and I have no idea
> how it'll cope with automake.)
>
>
I don't know anything about NetBeans IDE but using the MSYS make instead of
the mingw32-make is probably due to the configure script creates a Makefile
for a POSIXy environment.


> Any help gratefully accepted!  The boss already doesn't understand why
> this wasn't finished yesterday...
>

Yea, well, what isn't it done already?  Are you napping on the job or what?
;-p

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