Re: lynx-dev What happened to MINGW patch?

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, 1 Feb 2004, Doug Kaufman wrote:

> On Sun, 1 Feb 2004, Thomas Dickey wrote:
>
> > I can vaguely recall seeing it, but didn't notice it when I was putting
> > patches together (perhaps I thought it was part of the pdcurses patches,
> > which I wasn't sure what to do with).
>
> You do have to patch pdcurses for arrow keys to work in the MingW port,
> but the patch I referenced was to let lynx compile. There are several
> ways that lynx could be compiled under MingW, and I only tested one.
>
> I compiled under Cygwin, using the "-mno-cygwin" directive, and using
> the configure script. This works, but configure gets three defines
> wrong for MingW, requiring a manual edit of lynx_cfg.h. Optimally
> (perhaps for the 2.8.6 series), I or someone else will patch configure
> to fix that.

I made a quick try at this a few hours ago, but the script didn't get
anywhere - couldn't link.  That's using just the cygwin packages.  Is
there any documentation on building mingw binaries on cygwin?

I read through the patch, don't see much to change (will reread closer
shortly, since I'd like to be done with 2.8.5 today).

> MingW now has msys, which should allow use of the configure script under
> a pure MingW system, rather than using "-mno-cygwin" under a Cygwin bash
> shell. The third option would be compiling from a batchfile, such as
> makelynx.bat (which is in the distribution). Has anyone used these
> latter two methods? Do they work on the current code? Who wrote
> makelynx.bat? I had never really noticed that batch file before.

That's address@hidden
I've built with it a few times.

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Thomas E. Dickey
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