Hi Developers,
I spent some time getting familiar with the Enigma source code and
getting a build environment set up on Windows XP. I am using the
latest stable versions of MinGW and MSYS, and was working with
revision 1167 of the subversion trunk. I have a few questions:
- Configure script in MinGW
I encountered a couple of problems with using the configure script to
compile under MSYS. For instance, the following (configure.ac:174):
if test "$MINGW32" = yes; then
AC_MSG_CHECKING([for Xerces 3.0 experimental version])
AC_EGREP_HEADER([gXercesMajVersion = 3],[xercesc/util/XercesVersion.hpp],
[AC_MSG_RESULT([found])],
[AC_MSG_ERROR([not found])])
AC_CHECK_LIB(xerces-c, main,,[AC_MSG_ERROR([xerces is required to
compile Enigma])])
else
will make the generated configure script fail on MinGW when not using
Xerces 3.0 expeimental version. I was able to get it working with
Xerces 2.8 after commeting this out. Should this be changed?
The code relies on libcurl, which was also not detected under
MinGW/MSYS without the following change (configure.ac:203), because
the libcurl development binary I downloaded (libcurldll instead):
dnl ----------------------------------------
dnl Check for libcurl
dnl ---------------------------------------
if test "$MINGW32" = yes; then
AC_CHECK_LIB(curldll,curl_global_init,,[AC_MSG_ERROR([libcurl is
required to compile Enigma])])
else
AC_CHECK_LIB(curl,curl_global_init,,[AC_MSG_ERROR([libcurl is
required to compile Enigma])])
fi
I didn't want to submit a diff straight away because this is the first
time I have set up this build environment on Windows and I am not
certain if it am correctly differentiating between errors in
configure.ac from any errors I might have made in setting up
MinGW/MSYS. Have any Windows developers had similar experiences?
- Visual C++
Trunk has a VisualC directory in it with project files, etc, but it is
outdated. What is the current status of using Visual C++ to compile
Enigma? Is someone working on getting it updated to the current
sources? If not, I will make an attempt to get it working in Visual
C++ 9.0 Express Edition.
Ivan
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