Given the recent traffic about the TODO list and seeing the need for a windows port, I thought I'd have a stab at getting Unicon to build under MinGW. I suspected it might be beyond me as it is more complex than PulseTLM which I did manage to get working, but I think I don't really understand the build system you have. It failed to build.
What I did is attached. I used the Msys download with the developers
tools installed.
I basically got the Intel 86 Linux, from the config/unix directory,
added likely looking windows stuff from the config/win32/gcc directory,
added a dash of foolish optimism :-) and tried to build it.
So this is either so someone can take the attached nonsense and fix it,
or it is left as a warning to others :-).
I can't see how to set some things, like AC_PREFIX which should be
/mingw to cause ./configure --prefix=/mingw to be the default
(though this gets guessed correctly). Though the README talks about
Icon docs at Arizona, it seems difficult to tell how much of that
will be out of date now.
I also noticed that the Makefile doesn't seem to have a clean:
target, and the fact it gets rewritten once the `make Configure
name=system` step is done means that reverting to a clean state
after a failed build is difficult anyway. There are going to be
perfectly good reasons for those choices, but I am more used to GNU
conventions. Maybe some more docs would help people help out.
I'm not really sure I can put any more time into this at the moment,
and I was really hoping I could make useful progress quickly. So
in the spirit of "reporting negative results is still useful"....
Thank you,
Hugh
mingw_unicon.tgz
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