[Adonthell-devel] Re: Win32 build progress

[Kai Sterker]

On 9/8/06, Kai Sterker <address@hidden> wrote:

Just another quick update.

> So right now, I see a couple of options:
[...]
> * track back, trash cygwin and start fresh with msys and mingw. It
> might be harder to install first, but compiling stuff might actually
> be simpler. It would definitely solve the cyg*.dll naming of libs I'm
> experiencing (but might introduce other obstacles).

I'm currently in the process of doing this and so far I am very happy
about it. The only bit that didn't go as smooth as expected is Python,
which cannot be build with mingw out of the box. I got a workaround
however ...

All in all, msys/mingw seems to be a much better combination than
cygwin/mingw. Most stuff compiles much more easily. Maybe I'm also
getting more accustomed to GNU on windows, which makes things seem
easier then they are ...

I also got NLS not only enabled, but also working for v0.3, so I could
play with Dutch or Italian language. I've already comitted the code
change required to get it working to both v0.3 and v0.4.

Kai