Re: [Msys2-users] symlinks vs configure vs gcc

[Ray D. <min...@gm...>]

Hi Stephe,

pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain mingw-w64-i686-toolchain [remove
any arch you don't care about]

It may good to read the following ticket where I walk people through
setting up a dev. env and building python2 from source (using our
PKGBUILD recipe - I recommend making a PKGBUILD for monotone and
submitting it to us too if you have the time/inclination!):

http://sourceforge.net/p/msys2/tickets/32/?limit=10&page=1#216b

Cheers,

Ray.


On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 10:32 AM, Stephen Leake
<ste...@st...> wrote:
> I'm trying to build monotone using MinGW64. monotone is written in C++,
> so it requires the g++ compiler.
>
> In msys2, 'pacman -Ss g++' returns no results, so it appears g++ has not
> yet been packaged for msys2; is this correct?
>
> The other option is to use MinGW64, which does provide g++.
>
> However, the MinGW64 compiler does not support Msys2 symlinks. Several
> of the packages required by monotone use symlinks (when supported) in
> the build process. 'configure' recognizes that msys2 supports symlinks,
> and it assumes that 'gcc' does as well.
>
> The dependent packages don't need g++, so I could compile them with
> msys2 gcc. However, I'm worried about compatibility of the two runtimes.
> MinGW64 offers several options for the runtime; which ones were used for
> the msys2 version?
>
> My current workaround is to run configure in msys2, which defines "LN_S = ln -s"
> in the generated Makefile, then edit that to "LN_S = cp -pR", then
> compile with MinGW64 gcc.
>
> Is there a better way?
>
> --
> -- Stephe
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