Re: AbiWord@MinGW: compiled successfully

From: Mark Gilbert (markgilbert@hotpop.com)
Date: Sun Apr 06 2003 - 11:38:58 EDT

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    On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 04:24, Sinitsyn Valentine wrote:
    > 1. abi/src/config/platforms/mingw32.mk
    > Move comment on a line 36 to the next line. This will make
    > ABI_OPT_PACIFY_COMPILER to be equal to "1", not "1 #some stuff here"
    > and ifneq at line 114 will correctly remove "-ansi" from the compiler
    > flags

    Welcome to mg's hell-ridden fun house, aka diving make. Shall take a
    look.

    > 3. abi/src/af/xap/win/*.rc2
    > There is a typo in xap_Win32Res_DlgLanguage.rc2. One should remove
    > comma at the end of the line 46. Then one should insert '#include
    > <windows.h>' line in every file, which has STYLE statement (Almost
    > all rc2 files have it)

    Is that why we're sometimes getting parse errors here? Oh. I bet MP or
    Jordi can't wait to fix that, thanks.

    > 4. abi/src/config/abi_defs.mk
    > 607: EXTRA_LIBS += -L$(ABI_ROOT)/../expat/.libs -lexpat
    > Original version has incorrect path to expat lib.
    > ($(ABI_ROOT)/../expat/lib/.libs)
    >

    *keeps provocative comments to self*

    >
    > AbiWord.exe produced by MinGW seems to be stable (at least, it does'nt
    > hangs or crashes after opening, typing some letters, saving them and
    > exiting). The only bad thing is that it is compiled as console
    > application so there is nasty DOS window when it is running. Maybe
    > this is some way to handle this issue via
    > abi/src/config/platforms/mingw32.mk's *_FLAGS variables?
    >

    Use mwindows.

    Regards
    -MG



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