I don't remember if AbiWord can be built on Win98 or not. We do our Win32
builds on NT. It certainly should work, but I don't know for sure.
(Bob, don't you build on Win95? Can you help?)
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>I recently tried to build abiword (latest) on win98. First it kept
>complaining that zlib was not found, so I downloaded the zlib source and
>unpacked it in the same base dir abi was unpacked. Next it complained
>about cc not found, so a sym-linked gcc to cc, next it complain about
>libpng not found, then libpng not having a makefile.... (very
>frustrated : )
>
>Are there build instructions out there for win98? (I'd be happy to do
>them if I could get this stuff to compile)
>
>currently I'm using the linux makefile (scripts/makefile.lnx) to build
>libpng. All goes well till ar and as try to build libpng.a. Can someone
>explain the win98 build procedure for me
>
>[....]
>//D/CYGNUS/CYGWIN~1/H-I586~1/i586-cygwin32/bin/as.exe: bfd assertion
>fail /home/
>noer/src/b20/comp-tools/devo/bfd/coff-i386.c:479
>C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\cc3cuWfa.s:643: Error: Cannot represent relocation type
>BFD_RELO
>C_386_GOTPC
>//D/CYGNUS/CYGWIN~1/H-I586~1/i586-cygwin32/bin/as.exe: bfd assertion
>fail /home/
>noer/src/b20/comp-tools/devo/bfd/coff-i386.c:479
>C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\cc3cuWfa.s:734: Error: Cannot represent relocation type
>BFD_RELO
>C_386_GOTPC
>//D/CYGNUS/CYGWIN~1/H-I586~1/i586-cygwin32/bin/as.exe: bfd assertion
>fail /home/
>noer/src/b20/comp-tools/devo/bfd/coff-i386.c:479
>C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\cc3cuWfa.s:784: Error: Cannot represent relocation type
>BFD_RELO
>C_386_GOTPC
>//D/CYGNUS/CYGWIN~1/H-I586~1/i586-cygwin32/bin/as.exe: bfd assertion
>fail /home/
>noer/src/b20/comp-tools/devo/bfd/coff-i386.c:479
>C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\cc3cuWfa.s:805: Error: Cannot represent relocation type
>BFD_RELO
>C_386_GOTPC
>//D/CYGNUS/CYGWIN~1/H-I586~1/i586-cygwin32/bin/as.exe: bfd assertion
>fail /home/
>noer/src/b20/comp-tools/devo/bfd/coff-i386.c:479
>C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\cc3cuWfa.s:829: Error: Cannot represent relocation type
>BFD_RELO
>C_386_GOTPC
>make[3]: *** [png.pic.o] Error 1
>make[2]: *** [_LIBPNG_] Error 2
>make[1]: *** [build] Error 2
>make: *** [build] Error 2
Eric W. Sink, Software Craftsman
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