[Mingw-w64-public] Getting started with MinGw

2013-04-05 Thread wynfield
Thank you NightStrike for telling me about the MinGw project. I tried to find an easy way to get this done on cygwin which I've been using and like a lot, but there wasn't anybody seemed up to the internals on basic i/o where cygwin meets the os xfc. I naively thought that I could download

[Mingw-w64-public] I am a member.

2013-04-05 Thread wynfield
My mail is being held and I'm getting a non-member message. I am a member, albeit a new one, but one none the same. Is there some problem? -- Minimize network downtime and maximize team effectiveness. Reduce network

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Application build failure

2013-08-29 Thread wynfield
From: JonY jo...@users.sourceforge.net Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 22:00:12 +0800 Subject: Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Application build failure On 8/29/2013 20:41, wynfield wrote: I am working on building the Crypt_SSLeay library package on MinGw. The build fails with the following error

[Mingw-w64-public] MinGW and Msys Directories

2013-08-31 Thread wynfield
#1 I'm sure that there is a good reason to have two very similiar root type directories such as MinGW and msys, but I can't see it. But, I am new to MinGW. To me two different pseudo root directories. Can someone explain why the two are necessary and on would not suffice? Or point me to a

[Mingw-w64-public] MinGW and Msys Directories

2013-08-31 Thread wynfield
#1 I'm sure that there is a good reason to have two very similiar root type directories such as MinGW and msys, but I can't see it. But, I am new to MinGW. To me two different pseudo root directories. Can someone explain why the two are necessary and on would not suffice? Or point me to a

[Mingw-w64-public] Posix and Mingw 64

2013-09-08 Thread wynfield
IS there a recommended way to keep Microsoft Windows related code and libraries isolated from cygwin dependent code and libraries? I am using /bin/i686-w64-mingw32-gcc etc, which came from cygwin's setup program. I created a development directory /msys short for Microsoft system which

[Mingw-w64-public] mingw and mingw

2013-12-04 Thread wynfield
mingw-w64-public@lists.sourceforge.net It's been a while and I'm a confused over which Mingw is which. I preferring a manual install downloaded the files stated as needed for a minimal system plus the gbd and document packages from: URL =

[Mingw-w64-public] Downloading

2013-12-04 Thread wynfield
In order tosee what is involved in installing MinGW-w64 (for my 32-bit host for 32-bit applications) I read the following on page: http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/mingw-w64/wiki/Downloading%20and%20installing%20MinGW-w64 where it states: The file naming scheme is explained below, with

[Mingw-w64-public] Using MinGW-w64

2013-12-04 Thread wynfield
Thanks to Ruben Van Boxem informing me that MinGW-w64 can be downloaded from Cygwin I was able to install all packages successfully. I downloaded all MinGW-w64 packages except gcc-ada and gcc-fortran. I then attempted to build a test program using it. I tried the following c test case as

[Mingw-w64-public] Learning to use MinGW-w64

2013-12-05 Thread wynfield
From: JonY Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2013 17:23:48 +0800 Subject: Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Using MinGW-w64 On 12/5/2013 12:58, wynfield wrote: # I then tried to compile it, but it failed as soon below. $ /bin/i686-w64-mingw32-gcc.exe hello.c i686-w64-mingw32-gcc: error: spawn

[Mingw-w64-public] Behavior

2013-12-05 Thread wynfield
I understand that on cygwin /bin and /usr/bin both point to the same directory. Given that and that the ming2-w64 gcc program is shown to be the exact same length and have the same md5sums, I assumed that they were all equal. -rwxr-xr-x 2 692765 Dec 1 /bin/i686-w64-mingw32-gcc -rwxr-xr-x 2

[Mingw-w64-public] Building Packages on MinGW-w64

2013-12-06 Thread wynfield
I am going to try to build the Linphone VoIP SIP application, whose source I download using git, using MinGW-w64 with Cygwin on an XP SP3 environment. I assume that Cygwin's m4, aclocal, autoheader, automake, autoconf, autogen.sh, libtoolize modules are safe to use and don't inject any

[Mingw-w64-public] Building linphone gtk with MinGW-w64

2013-12-06 Thread wynfield
I found http://www.gtk.org that has a ms windows library that I will use when building Linphone. I've installed it in a directory for ms win32 specific dev named /cygdrive/c/win-dev I am trying to confiure as follows: $ ./configure CC=/usr/bin/i686-w64-mingw32-gcc

[Mingw-w64-public] Made some more progress building LinPhone

2013-12-06 Thread wynfield
I found that adding LIBGTK_CFLAGS=-L/cygdrive/c/win-dev/lib LIBGTK_LIBS=-L/cygdrive/c/win-dev/lib to the configure command line allowed configure to find the MS Win GTK library. Now configure progresses until it can't find any readling library, which I believe is a commong Gnu

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Building Packages on MinGW-w64

2013-12-06 Thread wynfield
Re: .. another thread for basically the same issue (building linphone) I'm sorry. I wasn't aware of that. I was receiving list messages in a digest which had the subject as Mingw-w64-public Digest, Vol 75, Issue 11 which isn't descriptive so I added a meaningful one and didn'T remember the

[Mingw-w64-public] configure options

2013-12-09 Thread wynfield
I tried to configure ffmpeg-2.1.1 simple with $ $ lv configure ...src/ffmpeg/ffmpeg-2.1.1 $ ./configure --host=i686-w64-mingw32 Unknown option --host=i686-w64-mingw32. See ./configure --help for available options. In the configure file it shows these options:

[Mingw-w64-public] Win-Builds

2013-12-12 Thread wynfield
What is the relation of Win-Builds to mingw64. It appears the ming64 is the core of it and then it addes on extra common packages and a user interface, though I've not used it. It does look nice. I'd like to hear from users in this group who've experienced it, if there are any out there.

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Win-Builds

2013-12-12 Thread wynfield
Sorry I did not provide details: Building environment: Microsoft XP SP3 (Japanese Home Edition) Fetech http://win-builds.org/stable/win-builds-bundle-1.3-beta3.zip Into local download dir:..some_path/win-builds Started cmd.exe Changed directory the ..some_path/win-builds #did

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Win-Builds

2013-12-12 Thread wynfield
It doesn't look like the mklink command is available to the XP based systems. I've found two possible substitute command, ln and junction, available at: ln .. http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/ln/ln.html#introduction junction .. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/sysinternals/bb896768

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Win-Builds

2013-12-17 Thread wynfield
Re: It took a bit more time and (much more sweat) than expected but I've implemented the revelant code straight in yypkg. There is test binary with this change which is available at: http://notk.org/~adrien/yypkg-no-external-mklink.exe Could you test it on XP and tell me whether it works

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Win-Builds

2013-12-17 Thread wynfield
What operating system and version you are building on? What source/date/version of yypkg are you using? What is the date of the sherpa command? The above information is important in many cases. You should supply it. -- cat fa boost.subscrib...@gmail.com wrote: When I run sherpa -install

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Win-Builds

2013-12-18 Thread wynfield
I followed your instructions. All downloading is successful. But, I'm getting a and the system gave me a invalid data in the reparse point error as follows: Installing mingw-w64-v3.0.0-1-i686-w64-mingw32-i686-w64-mingw32.txz...Fatal error: exception

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Win-Builds

2013-12-22 Thread wynfield
Adrien, the last set of sherpa and yypkg with no-external-mklink successfully installed and build my hello world test program successfully as well. I'll go on to do more testing. Apparently ../win-builds-32/gcc knows where to find the includes and libraries, so no option settings were

[Mingw-w64-public] win-builds config options

2013-12-23 Thread wynfield
I need some advice on configuration options for building the GNU readline library. I am new to win-builds and mingw64 Platform is: MS Windows XP SP3. I have the latest cygwin installed and the new win-builds separately installed. When invoking the configure script which comes with GNU

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] win-builds config options

2013-12-24 Thread wynfield
Vincent Torri wrote: Hey Note that I have no problem to compile libraries using MSYS and Win-Builds. Vincent Torri That's nice Vicent. Please tell us what libraries or kinds of libraries are you talking about? And... are you invoking the MSYS/Win-Builds configure build chain from

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] win-builds config options

2013-12-25 Thread wynfield
Vincent Torri vincent.to...@gmail.com wrote: hey Basically, I installed MSYS (and only it, not MinGW) with the installer from MinGW.org, then i installed win-builds. See : http://win-builds.org/stable/#_from_windows_for_msys (I'm the one who provided to Adrien the first draft of the

[Mingw-w64-public] Shell

2013-12-26 Thread wynfield
Using the windows cmd box terminal console, then on Win-Buids which is using MinGW64. How do you compile a source package which comes with a configure shell script made for the *nix world? Regards -- Rapidly

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] win-builds config options

2014-01-07 Thread wynfield
Adrien Nader adr...@notk.org wrote: skipped I've installed pango in my cygwin installation and, combined with an older version of the msys-install.sh script, I can see the issue. Basically, Can you try with this file instead:

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] win-builds config options

2014-01-08 Thread wynfield
Adrien Nader adr...@notk.org wrote: On Wed, Jan 08, 2014, wynfi...@gmail.com wrote: I brought up a MS CMD console and ran the followingm, which I think is what you meant by the corresponding exe files.

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Win-builds 1.3.0 - stable release

2014-01-13 Thread wynfield
Great!. I installed the last version from using programs ? in win-builds-bundle-1.3-rc1.zip and using msys-install.sh and win-builds-switch.sh. Can I get the new version by running the existing msys-install.sh I have and will yypkg know what to do ? Regards Adrien Nader adr...@notk.org

[Mingw-w64-public] Newest Win-Builds Package Mingw64 Dev

2014-01-15 Thread wynfield
I'm putting together a script that will install Win-Builds for me on a cygwin based platform. It is not completed because there are a few details I am blurred about and I'm not sure what changes have been incorporated into the recent scripts or programs. FIRST:It is inconvenient to

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Newest Win-Builds Package Mingw64 Dev

2014-01-15 Thread wynfield
Adrien Nader wrote: .. skipped for brevity ... You've actually made me notice an issue with the cygwin/msys installer: it doesn't copy bsdtar and wget to bin/ (and liblzma). When you say specify the bin/directory, I suppose you mean /opt/windows_32/bin because if you cp

Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Newest Win-Builds Package Mingw64 Dev

2014-01-15 Thread wynfield
Adrien Nader wrote: ... snipped part Hmm, I'm sorry if I didn't make it clear: all the fixes for installation under cygwin and XP have been merged. If you download http://win-builds.org/stable/win-builds-bundle-1.3.0.zip and use its files, you should have nothing to do besides running