Okay, so the idea of the mingw32ce developers was that they are building on Cygwin (the name 'mingw' makes that a little more difficult to realize - it seems like some ping-pong chain of development steps).
Cygwin is needed to *use* the package (cygwin1.dll), plus Cygwin is also able to properly unpack the package, simply by issuing standard 'tar -zxvf <fn>' command. I'll include Cygwin dependency and these small instructions in the README placeholder in mingwarm dir: --- Download package from here and unpack into this directory: https://sourceforge.net/project/downloading.php?group_id=173455&use_mirror=switch&filename=cygwin-cegcc-mingw32ce-0.51.0-1.tar.gz&a=34126466 NOTES: - In order to unpack and use this package, you'll need Cygwin package (from http://cygwin.com) installed and put in PATH for Cygwin runtime (cygwin1.dll). - To unpack: > sh $ tar -zxvf cygwin-cegcc-mingw32ce-0.51.0-1.tar.gz $ exit - Move content of /opt/mingw32ce directory to this one. --- Brgds, Viktor On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 2:29 PM, Viktor Szakáts<[email protected]> wrote: >>> Now I cannot recommend in a Windows package to use a *nix system >>> to unpack it, so I'm looking for free tools which are able to unpack this >>> file properly. >>> Any ideas? >> >> Can you define what "properly" means for you when soft and hard links are >> unpacked in Windows on file system which does not support them? > > I described it. Properly means that the resulting directory is > 136MB in size. That also means no zero length files are present > in the tree (as placeholders for links). > > One such file is actually the GCC executable which we need > to call from GNU Make and hbmk2: > > opt\mingw32ce\bin\arm-wince-mingw32ce-gcc.exe > > it's zero length with these tools, but should be 360474 bytes. > > It's a little bit hard to understand why mingw32ce developers > thought it a good idea to distribute a Windows package which > cannot be unpacked on Windows... > > If I'm asking for the impossible I'll have to either drop mingwarm > option from the final builds or include mingw32ce in our package. > I don't really like any of these options :( > > Brgds, > Viktor > _______________________________________________ Harbour mailing list [email protected] http://lists.harbour-project.org/mailman/listinfo/harbour
