Re: trying to build msys from source

Caleb Cushing wrote:
>> Sorry, I forgot to include the building instructions.
>>
>>  Before building MSYS, you must create an MSYS build environment.
>>  Currently, the best resource is:
>>
>>  HOWTO Create an MSYS Build Environment
>>  http://www.mingw.org/node/43
> 
> ah thanks... well I have it building more healthily after that.
> 
> however now I have some actual build errors.
> 
> ../../../../source/winsup/cygwin/tty.cc: In method `int
> tty_list::allocate_tty(int)':
> ../../../../source/winsup/cygwin/tty.cc:217: implicit declaration of
> function `int GetConsoleWindow(...)'

[...]

Ah, yes, you must also copy the file /mingw/include/wincon.h to /include

> 
> extra info
> $ gcc -v
> Reading specs from /bin/../lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-msys/2.95.3-1/specs
> gcc version 2.95.3
> 
> hmm.... is this supposed to be building with 2.9.5? I have 3.4.5 installed.
> 

This version of gcc is currently required to build MSYS. It was
installed on /bin by the msysDVLPR package.

> $ ld -v
> GNU ld version 2.17.50 20060824
> 
> $ uname -a
> MSYS_NT-5.1 SLAVE-2 1.0.11(0.46/3/2) 2008-08-25 23:40 i686 Msys
>

Looks good.

Regards,
Cesar

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