Re: Win32/MinGW port

["Alexander Varakin" <avarakin00 hotmail com>]

Hi Piotr,

As far as I remember about half a year ago a patch for MigGW was submitted
by Franco Bez.
His home page is:
http://home.a-city.de/franco.bez/mc/mc.html
You can try to contact him of find his patch in MC list archives.
I'm just wondering : why don't you like cygwin port?
If you need a native Win32 Norton Commander clone,  the "Far manager" would
be better.
The cygwin port has one huge advantage comparing to Far and MigGW port of
MC - it allows to have a Unix shell prompt instead of dos command prompt
(actually as far as I remember the MigGW port doesn't even have working
command prompt).

Alex

----- Original Message -----
From: "Piotr Lakomy" <PiotrL cft-inc net>
To: <mc-devel gnome org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 12:15 AM
Subject: Win32/MinGW port


> I tied to compile latest (mc-2002-08-10-05.tar.gz) using
> recent out-of-box distribution of MinGW on Windows NT 4.0
> (no cygwin) but I'm stuck.
>
> I managed to fix few problems:
>  * include/sys/types.h:100: conflicting types for `mode_t'
>    config.h:115: previous declaration of `mode_t'
>    (removed from config.h)
>
>  * include/sys/types.h:90: warning: redefinition of `pid_t'
>    config.h:116: warning: `pid_t' previously declared here
>    (removed from config.h)
>
>  * no glib.h (downloaded and compiled)
>
>  * In file included from ../src/tty.h:9,
>                     from ../src/user.c:26:
>    ../src/myslang.h:11: slang/slang-mc.h: No such file or directory
>    In file included from ../src/user.c:33:
>    ../src/user.h:5: edit/edit-widget.h: No such file or directory
>    (just copied curred dir to get it on include path -I. -I../slang)
>
>  * ../src/eregex.h:23: regex.h: No such file or directory
>    (copied from some old distribution mc-4.1.36-mingw)
>
> And now I' getting:
> gcc.exe -g -O0 -mno-cygwin -I. -I../slang -DMC_NT  \
>       -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -c -odebug/file.o ../src/file.c
>
> ../src/file.c:120: parse error before `umode_t'
> ../src/file.c:120: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or union
> ../src/file.c:122: parse error before `}'
>       (see the rest of messages below)
>
> I know it's hard to figure out what's wrong with my particular
> configuration/includes/libraries but any input will be appreciated.
>
> And thanks for MC. I can't live without it (currently I use
> it on HP-UX, cygwin and Win32 port from
> http://home.a-city.de/franco.bez/mc/mc.html)
>
> Piotr Lakomy
>