Re: Odd behaviour when building on Win32 using MinGW

[Michael Torrie <torriem chem byu edu>]

On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 11:14, Espen Harlinn wrote:
> I'm trying to build glib-2.2.2 on Windows using MinGW only (not cygwin -
> I've tried that too, and it doesn't work very well either - and btw.
> both msys and cygwin paths where identical when I did this)
> Initally the scripts in 'build\win32' didn't execute, but that was easy
> to fix: just put 'sh ' in front of the script names in the make files.

I have also had some grief building these things from scratch.  I've
taken to using the development kit at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gtk-win

It integrates well with mingw.


Michael
> 
> make
> 
> ok
> 
> make check
> 
> 9 out of 31 tests fail - see end of file for output 
> 
> The module-test seems to fail because PATH is not exported after the
> necessary modifications 
> 
> shell-test : memory access error
> 
> Most of the other failures seems to be related to text handling.
> 
> So I'm wondering: is this the normal result on win32 ???
> 
> Best regards
> Espen Harlinn
> 
> 
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Michael Torrie <torriem chem byu edu>