Re: Compile problem under windows

[Simon Josefsson]

Saro Engels <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello list!

Hello and welcome.

> I am currently trying to compile libidn with mingw/msys under windows
> and I get an error right at the start of making:
>
> C:/msys/bin/sh.exe ../libtool --tag=CC   --mode=compile gcc
> -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I..     -g -O2 -MT getopt.lo -MD -MP -MF
> .deps/getopt.Tpo -c -o getopt.lo getopt.c
>  gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -g -O2 -MT getopt.lo -MD -MP -MF
> .deps/getopt.Tpo -c getopt.c  -DDLL_EXPORT -DPIC -o .libs/getopt.o
> In file included from getopt.h:38,
>                  from getopt.c:27:
> ./unistd.h:23:13: stdout: No such file or directory
>
> So I have to questions:
> (1) Is it possible at least to build libidn with mingw or do I have to
> use cygwin?

MinGW is a supporter platform, so it should work fine.

> (2) If (1) should be possible, can you help me find a solution how to
> build libidn correctly?

Sure.  Can you send the output from running ./configure + make in a
freshly extracted directory?  Please also include the
libidn-*/gl/unistd.h file that is generated by configure.

I suspect something went wrong when unistd.h was generated.

/Simon