2008/9/28 Stephen Leake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Markus Wanner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Instead we should IMO simply rip out the still-bundled stuff (pcre, >> sqlite, idna, botan) and adjust the Makefile cruft to build against >> system provided libraries - as the vast majority of other software >> does. Or how often did you encounter a 'configure' which doesn't >> configure anything but leaves that task for 'make', making you fiddle >> with aclocal in subdirectories if things don't work out as planned? >> >> Comments? > > I agree this is a reasonable goal, at least on platforms that have > decent package managers. > > MinGW doesn't have a decent package manager, and I don't know where to > get pcre for MinGW; I looked for that a while ago. I haven't looked > for the others.
AFAIR, on properly configured mingw+msys ./configure --prefix=/mingw && make install works like a charm for pcre-7.7. However, i don't know if botan & sqlite builds natively on mingw32 without tricks. I'll try to pefrorm some research on topic. > We need to continue to support MinGW Absolutely. PS. Again why this list doesn't set Reply-To header!? Stephen: sorry for duplicate. -- Zbigniew Zagórski / software developer / geek / happy daddy /
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