Re: [h-e-w] Building Emacs from CVS

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 03:59:25 +0400
> From: Konstantin <address@hidden>
> 
> Checking whether W32 API headers are too old...
> 
> C:\Temp\emacs\nt>gcc  -c junk.c
> In file included from 
> c:\mingw\bin\../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.4.0/../../../../include/windef.h:253,
>                  from 
> c:\mingw\bin\../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.4.0/../../../../include/windows.h:48,
>                  from junk.c:1:
> c:\mingw\bin\../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.4.0/../../../../include/winnt.h:37:20: 
> error: string.h: No such file or directory
> In file included from 
> c:\mingw\bin\../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.4.0/../../../../include/ole2.h:9,
>                  from 
> c:\mingw\bin\../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.4.0/../../../../include/windows.h:114,
>                  from junk.c:1:
> c:\mingw\bin\../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.4.0/../../../../include/objbase.h:12:20: 
> error: stdlib.h: No such file or directory

You didn't install mingw-runtime-X.YZ.tar.gz.  That's where the
libraries and header files (like string.h and stdlib.h) are.

Btw, I don't really understand why you are having all these
difficulties.  What instructions did you use to install MinGW?  This
page:

  http://www.mingw.org/wiki/Getting_Started

which is the second Google hit for "mingw", and is also present on the
main MinGW page (http://www.mingw.org/), says:

  Manual Installation
  As an alternative to the automated installer, you may install MinGW by 
manually downloading and uncompressing individual components. 

  Download at least the following (or newer) packages from the MinGW download 
page: 

  binutils 
  gcc-core 
  mingw-runtime 
  w32api 

  These are the minimum requirements for a working mingw-gcc-toolchain for C.

And each one of the 4 items is a link to download the corresponding
archive from sourceforge.  I didn't actually try the links -- are they
incorrect or something?

There's another link from the main MinGW page (http://www.mingw.org/):

  http://www.mingw.org/wiki/HOWTO_Install_the_MinGW_GCC_Compiler_Suite

has the "Manual Installation" section which also points to the same 4
basic packages that you need to download and install.

> pfff... in case of success, it will result in my instruction for teapots :)

Well, would you care to share with us how did you miss the
instructions above?  Perhaps the wording of the instructions needs
some tweaking to become more clear, but please tell how.