On Sun, 30 Jul 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > May I ask you the concrete steps to compile Lynx under Cygwin with > > -mno-cygwin? Do you mean running configure & make on Cygwin bash? > > OK. I went back through my notes and patches and did some more testing. > Here is a step-by-step guide to building a statically compiled lynx > under Cygwin which will not be dependent on the cygwin dll (i.e. a MingW > binary). There were a lot of patches, so this is long, but with all the > details it should avoid the need for multiple followup questions. Let me > know if anything isn't clear or if it doesn't work as claimed on your > machine. > Doug
Thanks a lot. I tried it and finally successed to build with some efforts. I wrote some comments and questions below. > Compiling lynx for MingW under Cygwin > > This post will try to outline how I built Windows lynx for MingW, > using the -mno-cygwin directive under Cygwin. I haven't looked > carefully at each of the steps to see whether or not it is important > for a successful build. Please remember that I am not a programmer, > so not all of the changes that I made may be appropriate. Before > beginning to try this, I would suggest reading Mumit Khan's paper > on how to use -mno-cygwin. Unfortunately, his web page about > MingW appears to have disappeared from the net. A copy of the > HOWTO has been saved and is available from DJ Delorie's web site > at "http://www.delorie.com/howto/cygwin/mno-cygwin-howto.html";. > Note that using -mno-cygwin turns off scanning of /usr/include > and /usr/local/include in favor of /usr/include/mingw and > /usr/local/include/mingw. > > This assumes that you have an install of Cygwin, including all the usual > utilities, and with installation of the mingw modules. When I built > my mingw programs, I frequently did so with $prefix=/mingw, so some > includes and libraries are installed in /mingw/include and /mingw/lib > rather than in /usr/include/mingw, /usr/local/include/mingw, etc., so > appropriate paths have to be specified when compiling to be sure that > the mingw files are found, rather than the cygwin files. > > The general plan is as follows: > 1. Compile and install MingW PDCurses 2.8 > 2. Compile and install MingW OpenSSL 0.9.8 stable branch > 3. Compile and install MingW iconv > 4. Compile and install MingW gettext I want to use precompiled libraries if it's OK. If I should to use patched libraries, please tell me which libraries sould be patched. > 5. Patch Cygwin autoconf to comply with Tom Dickey's patches. Note that > standard autoconf will fail with the lynx configure.in script. > 6. Patch aclocal.m4 for DOS/Windows compatibility > 7. Run autoconf to regenerate configure > 8. Run configure with the appropriate options to generate the makefiles > 9. If desired, compile a lynx icon into a coff file with windres and > modify the src/makefile to include the icon file in the lynx binary > 10. Run make to generate lynx and make install-full to install > 11. Optionally compress the lynx binary with upx > > The details: > > > 1. Compile and install MingW PDCurses 2.8 I used precompiled library: pdcurses-2.6.0-2003.07.21-1.exe I got from http://www.mingw.org/download.shtml. > 2. Compile and install MingW OpenSSL 0.9.8 stable branch > > I applied this patch before compiling: I tried GnuTLS instead of OpenSSL. I used precompiled library: gnutls_1_0_17_win32_mingw_libs.zip I got from ftp://ftp.gnutls.org/pub/gnutls/win32. > 3. Compile and install MingW iconv > > I used libiconv 1.8. > I applied this patch: I used precompiled library: libiconv-1.9.1.bin.woe32.zip I got from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=25167 > 4. Compile and install MingW gettext > > I used gettext-0.11.5. > I applied this patch: I used precompiled library: gettext-0.11.5-2003.02.01-1.exe I got from http://www.mingw.org/download.shtml. # I found two different source archives of gettext-0.11.5 from # http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/ # http://www.mingw.org/download.shtml # # I failed to apply your patch to the former one. # I successed to apply it the latter one but haven't successed to built. > 5. Patch Cygwin autoconf to comply with Tom Dickey's patches. > > I used cygwin autoconf 2.59-2. First I applied the cygwin > patch that comes with the source code. I then applied a patch > combining the DOS pathname patches from the DJGPP port and a > modification of the patch on Tom Dickey's web page for autoconf 2.57 > ("http://invisible-island.net/autoconf/autoconf.html";). This is the > patch: [snip] > Then run "configure", then "make", then "make install". No problem. > 6. Patch aclocal.m4 for DOS/Windows compatibility > > Finally to lynx, itself. > Apply the patch I recently submitte to the lynx-dev list for DOS path > compatibility. No problem. > 7. Run autoconf to regenerate configure > > Next, regenerate the configure file by running "autoconf". Unfortunately, > autoconf 2.59 is no longer backwards compatible with configure.in files > written for 2.13. So before you can run autoconf, you need to patch the > configure.in file to work with 2.59. [snip] > Now run "autoconf" to genrate the "configure" file. No problem. > 8. Run configure with the appropriate options to generate the makefiles > > Run configure with the options that you want. I use: > > > #!/bin/bash.exe > LDFLAGS="-mno-cygwin -static" \ > LIBS="-L/mingw/lib -lwsock32 -lgdi32 -lmsvcrt -liconv" \ I think "-L/mingw/lib" should be in LDFLAGS instead of in LIBS. I changed these line as below to compile with GnuTLS. LDFLAGS="-mno-cygwin -static -L/mingw/lib" \ LIBS="-lgdi32 -lmsvcrt -liconv -lgcrypt -lgpg-error -lwsock32" \ # I don't know why I have to add "-lgcrypt -lgpg-error". > CFLAGS="-mno-cygwin -I/mingw/include -I/mingw/include/openssl -W \ > -Wall -O3 -D_WINDOWS -DSH_EX -DWIN_EX -DNOUSERS -DNOSIGHUP -DDOSPATH \ > -DUSE_ALT_BLAT_MAILER -DBOXHORI=0 -DBOXVERT=0" \ > CPPFLAGS="-mno-cygwin -I/mingw/include -I/mingw/include/openssl" \ > ./configure --prefix=d:/cygwin/mingw/lynx2.8.6dev.18/lynx-conf \ > --host=mingw32 \ > --disable-dired-override \ > --disable-full-paths \ > --enable-addrlist-page \ > --enable-change-exec \ > --enable-charset-choice \ > --enable-default-colors \ > --enable-exec-links \ > --enable-externs \ > --enable-file-upload \ > --enable-gzip-help \ > --enable-nested-tables \ > --enable-nls \ > --enable-vertrace \ > --libdir=d:/cygwin/mingw/lynx2.8.6dev.18/lynx-conf \ > --with-bzlib \ I removed this line because I don't install bzlib. > --with-screen=curses \ > --with-ssl \ > --with-zlib > 9. If desired, compile a lynx icon into a coff file with windres and > modify the src/makefile to include the icon file in the lynx binary > > I use the lynx.ico file distributed by Wayne Buttles with his package. Just > put lynx.ico in src and create a "icon.rc" file in src consisting of the one > line: > > 100 ICON "./lynx.ico" > > Then run "windres -i icon.rc -o icon.o -O coff". > You can then add "icon$o" to OBJS in src/Makefile. Not tried yet. > 10. Run make to generate lynx and make install-full to install > You must install into a separate directory if you want to compress the > helpfiles. That is why I use "lynx-conf". I tried only make and success to build binary. GREAT! > 11. Optionally compress the lynx binary with upx > If you want to make the lynx.exe file smaller, use "upx --best lynx.exe" Not tried yet. > I run lynx from a batch file which sets up the appropriate variables: > > @echo off > set TERM=pcterm > set HOME=d:/cygwin/mingw/lynx2.8.6dev.18/lynx-conf > set EDITOR=d:/progra~1/vim/vim61/gvim.exe > set SSL_CERT_FILE=d:/cygwin/usr/local/ssl/cert.pem > d:\cygwin\mingw\lynx2.8.6dev.18\lynx2-8-6\lynx.exe %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9 > > > The default lynx.cfg and lynx.lss files are in the directory specified by > "libdir" in the configure script. The lynx.rc (equivalent to .lynxrc) will be > created in the HOME directory as will the bookmark file. > > I create a Windows shortcut file (.lnk) to the batch file and put it on > my desktop. > > You can specify the environment variable "LYNX_LOCALEDIR" to specify > the location of the directory under which the lynx.mo files reside. > The language used can be specified by the "LANG" environment variable. > The charset to be assumed by the NLS code is specified in the > "charset.alias" file, but can be overridden by setting the "LANG" > variable to the "codepage" and setting the "LANGUAGE" variable to the > language. > -- > Doug Kaufman > Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > _______________________________________________ > Lynx-dev mailing list > Lynx-dev@nongnu.org > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev -- Takeshi Hataguchi E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Lynx-dev mailing list Lynx-dev@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev
