Dear folks, reading ppl's experiences here it almost seems like compiling Agar on Windows is neigh impossible. I've tried myself on MINGW and cygwin but i have to admit i haven't been able to do so yet.
The most viable way seems to be to install cygwin and cross-compile for MINGW on it since the MINGW environment is somewhat broken. This is not really a good way forward it seems since cygwin only seems to be for 32 bit? Running on a 64 bit host thus gives weird results and linkage errors it seems. Maybe the MINGW for 64 bits is better suited? Rests us the MicroSoft Visual Studio `Express' way. Has anyone tried it? I know `bsdbuild' can create project files but the last time i tried it molested my makefile!! thus running `make proj' can only be done once... and it relies on some tool that seems to be passed a wrong environment.... My solution for MSVSE would be to enhance the `make proj' section to make a nice project file WITHOUT mangling the makefile and creating the project file for MSVSE. This then can then be distributed i'd say for ppl. to explore. Rests us with the problems with freetype and sdl.... Would it be feasable to distribute a completely instalable Agar+Freetype+SDL+pthread ? that only needs to be extracted at the right place in MingW or cygwin? ;) That would help a lot! Even IF you want to develop/recompile Agar the others are then at least in the right place and installed correctly for Agar to find! Reactions most welcome! With regards, Reinoud _______________________________________________ Agar mailing list [email protected] http://libagar.org/lists.html
