Re: AbiWord@MinGW, Part II

From: msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au
Date: Mon Apr 07 2003 - 04:01:11 EDT

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    > SV> The only bad thing is that it is compiled as console
    > SV> application so there is nasty DOS window when it is running. Maybe
    > SV> this is some way to handle this issue via
    > SV> abi/src/config/platforms/mingw32.mk's *_FLAGS variables?
    >
    > It seems that setting 'OS_CFLAGS = -mwindows' in that file solves the
    > problem. So now AbiWord is a native GUI application.
    >

    Hooray! This is a major achievement. Congratulations and thanks very much.
    Could we document exactly what is need so that any windows machine can be
    used to build abiword?

    If it's tricky can we fix things to make it as easy as possible?

    If it's easy enough I might even do it :-)

    Cheers

    Martin

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