Re: Enchant and Windows

So you want to build from source, but you don't want to:

1) cross-compile
2) download msft's free compiler and write your own makefiles (which isn't hard)
3) purchase visual studio to use the existing project files
4) give mingw a try, since cross compiling is known to work and it
uses the same build system. All you'd need to do is to download
mingw's binutils package or build from an enchant tarball since it
already contains Makefile.ins and configure
5) write your own makefiles to use with gcc

Picky customer... We've bent over backwards to make this accessible.
You're own your own.

On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 8:30 AM, Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger@uvena.de> wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:41:07 -0400, "Dominic Lachowicz"
> <domlachowicz@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> You should be able to use mingw. Give it a try. I know that we've been
>> able to cross-compile Enchant DLLs, so it may work without any
>> intervention.
>
> I don't want to cross-compile.
> And unless I'm missing something essential I can't build the code on
> Windows using Mingw as there are only the Makefile.am's which still need
> to be processed by autotools :(.
>
>> If not, you can always write your own makefiles and download
>
> I somehwat expected such an answer :D. Anyway, I don't have the time to
> write a set of own makefiles for Enchant.
>
>> Microsoft's free development SDK/compiler.
> Not an option :).
>
> Regards,
> Enrico
>
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