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[Plib-users] my plib build attempt is failing

[Jon B. <js...@ha...>]

I am trying to build plib for FlightGear but my build is failing with a
message that mmsystem.h is not found. I have the latest full cygwin
installed, but mmsystem.h is not there, either. Any hints on what I can do?

Jon

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Re: [Plib-users] my plib build attempt is failing

[Steve B. <sjb...@ai...>]

Jon Berndt wrote:
> 
> I am trying to build plib for FlightGear but my build is failing with a
> message that mmsystem.h is not found. I have the latest full cygwin
> installed, but mmsystem.h is not there, either. Any hints on what I can do?

<sigh>

This has happened before - the problem is that mmsystem.h described
critical OS structures and stuff for Windoze - but Microsoft - being
such *NICE* people only ship it with their own compilers.

I thought that the Cygwin guys had fixed their release to contain
a clone of mmsystem.h - but that's evidently not true or else you
wouldn't have a problem.

I have *heard* that one fix is to steal a copy of that file from
the 'WINE' project.  WINE is a suite of freeware libraries that
allow Windoze programs to run under Linux (and other) OS's.  As
such, I've heard that it comes with a copy of mmsystem.h

However, I'm sure there are other people who will tell you other
solutions.  I bet that quite a few people illegally copied mmsystem.h
from other people who own MSVC.  If so, I DON'T WANT TO KNOW ABOUT IT!

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Re: [Plib-users] my plib build attempt is failing

[Jason E. S. <tam...@ai...>]

Steve Baker writes:
 > Jon Berndt wrote:
 > > 
 > > I am trying to build plib for FlightGear but my build is failing with a
 > > message that mmsystem.h is not found. I have the latest full cygwin
 > > installed, but mmsystem.h is not there, either. Any hints on what I can do?
 > 
 > <sigh>
 > 
 > This has happened before - the problem is that mmsystem.h described
 > critical OS structures and stuff for Windoze - but Microsoft - being
 > such *NICE* people only ship it with their own compilers.
 > 
 > I thought that the Cygwin guys had fixed their release to contain
 > a clone of mmsystem.h - but that's evidently not true or else you
 > wouldn't have a problem.
 > 
 > I have *heard* that one fix is to steal a copy of that file from
 > the 'WINE' project.  WINE is a suite of freeware libraries that
 > allow Windoze programs to run under Linux (and other) OS's.  As
 > such, I've heard that it comes with a copy of mmsystem.h
 > 
 > However, I'm sure there are other people who will tell you other
 > solutions.  I bet that quite a few people illegally copied mmsystem.h
 > from other people who own MSVC.  If so, I DON'T WANT TO KNOW ABOUT IT!

I haven't used cygwin myself, so I can't vouch for the usefulness of
this but you can find Anders Norlander's LGPL win32 headers and import 
libraries--which do include mmsystem.h--at:

ftp://ftp.xraylith.wisc.edu/pub/khan/gnu-win32/cygwin/gcc-2.95.2/

I found this from Mumit Khan's Gnu win32 page:

http://www.xraylith.wisc.edu/~khan/software/gnu-win32/

It's a bit dated, but here's some discussion from the cygwin mailing
list about it.

http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/cygwin/1998-12/msg00674.html

Caveat emptor. :)

--
Jason E. Steele
tam...@ai...

RE: [Plib-users] my plib build attempt is failing

[Norman V. <nh...@ca...>]

Jason E. Steele writes:
>Steve Baker writes:
> > Jon Berndt wrote:
> > >
> > > I am trying to build plib for FlightGear but my build is
>failing with a
> > > message that mmsystem.h is not found. I have the latest
>full cygwin
> > > installed, but mmsystem.h is not there, either. Any hints
>on what I can do?
> >
> > <sigh>
> >
> > This has happened before - the problem is that mmsystem.h described
> > critical OS structures and stuff for Windoze - but Microsoft - being
> > such *NICE* people only ship it with their own compilers.
> >
> > I thought that the Cygwin guys had fixed their release to contain
> > a clone of mmsystem.h - but that's evidently not true or else you
> > wouldn't have a problem.
> >
>
>I haven't used cygwin myself, so I can't vouch for the usefulness of
>this but you can find Anders Norlander's LGPL win32 headers and import
>libraries--which do include mmsystem.h--at:
>
>ftp://ftp.xraylith.wisc.edu/pub/khan/gnu-win32/cygwin/gcc-2.95.2/

These work fine
as do Anders' original ones found at
http://www.acc.umu.se/~anorland/gnu-win32/

Mummit has taken over maintaining these, and his files
form a more complete Win32 system.

These are not part of the Cygnus B20 distribution and require
an additional installation step to get a more complete Win32
cygwin system.

They are included in cygwin snapshots since 1999/03/09
for announcement see
http://www.delorie.com/archives/browse.cgi?p=cygwin-developers/1999/03/09/18
:36:46

Norman

Re: [Plib-users] my plib build attempt is failing

[Jon B. <js...@ha...>]

> Jon Berndt wrote:
> >
> > I am trying to build plib for FlightGear but my build is failing with a
> > message that mmsystem.h is not found. I have the latest full cygwin
> > installed, but mmsystem.h is not there, either. Any hints on what I can
do?
>
> <sigh>
>
> I thought that the Cygwin guys had fixed their release to contain
> a clone of mmsystem.h - but that's evidently not true or else you
> wouldn't have a problem.

I screwed up. Since FlightGear changed the structure of the source tree, and
I hadn't gotten the new stuff in quite a while, I cleared out my directories
and started anew with everything. Apparently my Win 32 API install went
haywire somewhere. So, mmsystem.h IS a part of the CygWin dist., now.

Now, while building pui, I get an error stating that:

> Making all in pui
> c++ -DPACKAGE=\"plib\" -DVERSION=\"1.1.11\" -DWIN32=1 -
> DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DWIN32=1
>   -I. -I../../././src/pui  -I../../././src/sg -I../../././src/fnt    -g -O
2 -O6
> -Wall  -malign-double -I/usr/local/include -L/usr/local/lib -c pu.cxx
> pu.h: In method `puFont::puFont()':
> In file included from puLocal.h:24,
>                 from pu.cxx:2:
> pu.h:87: `GLUT_BITMAP_8_BY_13' undeclared (first use this function)
> ...
> ...

I assume I need new glut headers.

Jon