Getting Orbit2 to work under win32

["Adam Buckley" <orbit adambuckley net>]

Hi,

Has anyone managed to get Orbit2 working under win32?

I tried using MinGW, but gave up in the end.  I attached my progress log
FYI.


Thanks in advance... Adam.

Title: Building Orbit2 on Win32 with MinGW

Building Orbit2 on Win32 with MinGW

Environment

• My OS Version: Windows XP v2002, SP1
• Installed MinGW tools from http://www.mingw.org/download.shtml
  • binutils-2.13.90-20030111-1.tar.gz
  • binutils-2.13.90-info-html.tar.gz
  • gcc-3.3.1-info-html.tar.gz
  • gcc-core-3.3.1-20030804-1.tar.gz
  • gcc-g++-3.3.1-20030804-1.tar.gz
  • gdb-5.2.1-1.exe
  • MinGW-3.1.0-1.exe
  • mingw-utils-0.2.tar.gz
  • mingw32-make-3.80.0-3.exe
  • MSYS-1.0.9.exe
  • msysDTK-1.0.1.exe
  • w32api-2.4.tar.gz

Process

• Download and install in the following order:  (Install by unzipping and moving contents to root of mingw)
  1. ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libiconv/libiconv-1.9.1.bin.woe32.zip
  2. ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gettext/gettext-runtime-0.12.1.bin.woe32.zip
  3. http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32/glib-2.2.3.zip
  4. http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32/glib-dev-2.2.3.zip
  5. http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32/pkgconfig-0.15.zip
• Download and install: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bison/bison-1.875.tar.gz
  • Unzip, start mingw32 shell
  • cd /c/temp/bison-1.875
  • ./configure
  • make
  • Error: pipe.c:134: undefined reference to `fork'
• Download and install ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/non-gnu/flex/flex-2.5.4a.tar.gz
• Download and install http://andrewtv.org/libIDL/libIDL-0.6.8.tar.gz