Re: Compiling GNU-RCS on Windows

[Hugh Sasse]

On Fri, 26 Sep 2008, Sunny wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I would like to know if anyone has compiled GNU RCS successfully on Windows
> and how did they do it? I have been trying to use MinGW and Cygwin but I keep

Well, Cygwin comes with RCS anyway, so I wonder if that would suffice...

> on getting these following errors:
> 

Is there a configure step you can use?  Conventionally with GNU there
is...

> $ make -f pc/Makefile mingw32
> make all -f pc/Makefile MINGW32="" OS="nt" \
>        CC="gcc" CCFLAGS="-O -D__WIN32__ -D__32BIT__ -DRCSDLL" \
>        LDFLAGS="-s -o ./" O=".o" A=".a" AR="ar" \
>        DLDFLAGS="-ladvapi32 -s -o ./"
> make[1]: Entering directory `/cygdrive/c/Documents and
> Settings/KabiniS/Desktop/
> RCS/rcs-5.7/src'
> gcc ci.o libinit.o rcslib.a -s -o ./ci.exe
> ci.o:ci.c:(.text+0x78): undefined reference to `___imp_suffixes'
> ci.o:ci.c:(.text+0x16b): undefined reference to `___imp_interactiveflag'
> ci.o:ci.c:(.text+0x178): undefined reference to `___imp_quietflag'
> ci.o:ci.c:(.text+0x35f): undefined reference to `___imp_suffixes'
> ci.o:ci.c:(.text+0x3c9): undefined reference to `___imp_nerror'
> ci.o:ci.c:(.text+0x46d): undefined reference to `___imp_Head'

this looks to me like a missing library, but I can't see what.
> .
> .
> .
> ci.o:ci.c:(.text+0x1a24): undefined reference to `___imp_Expand'
> ci.o:ci.c:(.text+0x1a7d): undefined reference to `___imp_Expand'
> ci.o:ci.c:(.text+0x1b57): undefined reference to `___imp_ciklog'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[1]: *** [ci.exe] Error 1
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Sunny

        Hugh