Am Sonntag, 12. Mai 2013 schrieb Ángel González: > On 12/05/13 21:50, Tim Rühsen wrote: > > A real solution would be a rewrite of the init stuff (I saw that already > > somewhere on the Wget 2.0 wish list or somewhere - don't remeber exactly). > > > > I already wrote this kind of code and would contribute it to Wget. > > But i am unshure how to apply it to Wget. Since it would be a pretty big > > change, should i git-clone Wget and you merge later or do you create a new > > branch or ... > > > > Ah, than we again have to discuss that infamous c89/c99 thing. > > AFAIR, the main argument against c99 came from Daniel Stenberg (Curl, haxx.se) > > who mentioned MS Visual C not being C99 ready (it will never be, said MS). > > I just saw that Debian has MinGW cross compiler packets for Win32 and Win64 > > with gcc 4.6, but I have no experience with those. > > Does anybody know if that is a real alternative to MS VC ? > > > > Regards, Tim > Yes, it is a real alternative as a compiler which works :) > However, I'm not sure how much does wget compile natively in win32 in > right now, > either with VC++ or gcc, mostly due to autoconf and gnulib detection.
Thanks for the hint. I just installed Debians MinGW packages and it worked like a charm (except a minor compile issue in url.c). For anyone who wants to try: $ make distclean $ ./configure --host=i686-w64-mingw32 --without-ssl --disable-ipv6 $ make $ wine src/wget.exe http://www.example.com I have no real Windows installation around to test wget.exe. But assuming, it works: Is there any need to stick at c89 code ? Or in other words: do we still have to support native Windows compilation with MSVC (couldn't these people install and use mingw) ? Regards, Tim
