Thanks for the help, I used the gnuwin32.sf.net zlib packages and now have successfully compiled fossil. I know this is all very obvious to many of you, but I thought I would write up the detailed steps I took to get fossil compiled on windows:-
1. Install MinGW (http://www.mingw.org/) - http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/ (click on the download now button - MinGW-5.1.6.exe for me) - Run and answer: - Download and Install - Current Package - install options - MiGW base tools - g++ compiler - install to C:\MinGW - Add C:\MinGW\bin to Path system variable (under environmental variables in the control panel). 2. Install MSYS - I followed information on this wiki page: http://www.mingw.org/wiki/msys - http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/MSYS-1.0.11.exe - just follow all of the defaults - http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/msysDTK-1.0.1.exe - Install to C:\msys\1.0 - http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MSYS%20Base%20System/msys-1.0.11/msysCORE-1.0.11-bin.tar.gz/download - Extract to C:\MinGW - Set Environment variable HOME to C:\msys\1.0\home (under environmental variables in the control panel). 3. Download zlib (from http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages.html ) - http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/downlinks/zlib-bin-zip.php - Extract to C:\MinGW - http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/downlinks/zlib-lib-zip.php - Extract to C:\MinGW 4. Download fossil source code (to c:/fossil-src in this example) 5. Compile fossil - open MSYS link from desktop - cd /c/fossil-src make -f Makefile.w32 Now I have a new fossil.exe in c:\fossil-src /Simon Horton. _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
