[re-unsolved] Mingw compiling problems

[Terkhen]

I have just installed a fresh MinGW/MSYS and I did not require to do the step "Setting up MSYS" (which means that the MinGW folder was already mounted as /mingw after install). IIRC they were planning to correct this problem, and it seems like they did. Can anybody confirm if this step is not required anymore?

[Terkhen]

The MinGW section of the wiki has been updated with instructions for compiling libicu. This is an optional dependency that you should install only if you need to use right-to-left scripts.

[Lord Aro]

Surely you mean right-to-left?

Nice to see you're using my thread as the 'official' mingw wiki thread
I feel privlidged

[Terkhen]

Indeed, the post has been edited.

[Lord Aro]

Terkhen: Can you change the wiki on the updates r21340-4?
I'm not entirely sure what to do...

[Terkhen]

The wiki was updated just after r21344 was commited.

[Lord Aro]

Ok, how are official binaries compiled? (icu and sorting etc)

[Terkhen]

Official binaries (except windows 9x ones) are compiled with MSVC, not with MinGW. They use OpenTTD Useful which includes libicu with a reduced icudata size.

[Lord Aro]

i'm having trouble installing zlib, following the instructions on the wiki:

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xxxxxxx@xxxx ~/zlib-1.2.5
$ make -f win32/Makefile.gcc BINARY_PATH=/usr/local/bin INCLUDE_PATH=/usr/local/include LIBRAR
Y_PATH=/usr/local/lib install
gcc  -O3 -Wall -DNO_VIZ -c -o adler32.o adler32.c
gcc  -O3 -Wall -DNO_VIZ -c -o compress.o compress.c
gcc  -O3 -Wall -DNO_VIZ -c -o crc32.o crc32.c
gcc  -O3 -Wall -DNO_VIZ -c -o deflate.o deflate.c
gcc  -O3 -Wall -DNO_VIZ -c -o gzclose.o gzclose.c
gcc  -O3 -Wall -DNO_VIZ -c -o gzlib.o gzlib.c
gcc  -O3 -Wall -DNO_VIZ -c -o gzread.o gzread.c
gcc  -O3 -Wall -DNO_VIZ -c -o gzwrite.o gzwrite.c
gcc  -O3 -Wall -DNO_VIZ -c -o infback.o infback.c
gcc  -O3 -Wall -DNO_VIZ -c -o inffast.o inffast.c
gcc  -O3 -Wall -DNO_VIZ -c -o inflate.o inflate.c
gcc  -O3 -Wall -DNO_VIZ -c -o inftrees.o inftrees.c
gcc  -O3 -Wall -DNO_VIZ -c -o trees.o trees.c
gcc  -O3 -Wall -DNO_VIZ -c -o uncompr.o uncompr.c
gcc  -O3 -Wall -DNO_VIZ -c -o zutil.o zutil.c
ar rcs libz.a adler32.o compress.o crc32.o deflate.o gzclose.o gzlib.o gzread.o gzwrite.o infba
ck.o inffast.o inflate.o inftrees.o trees.o uncompr.o zutil.o
windres --define GCC_WINDRES -o zlibrc.o win32/zlib1.rc
gcc -shared -Wl,--out-implib,libzdll.a  \
        -o zlib1.dll win32/zlib.def adler32.o compress.o crc32.o deflate.o gzclose.o gzlib.o gz
read.o gzwrite.o infback.o inffast.o inflate.o inftrees.o trees.o uncompr.o zutil.o  zlibrc.o
Creating library file: libzdll.a
strip zlib1.dll
if [ "0" = "1" ]; then \
                mkdir -p /usr/local/bin; \
                cp -fp zlib1.dll /usr/local/bin; \
                cp -fp libzdll.a /usr/local/lib; \
        fi
cp -fp zlib.h /usr/local/include
cp -fp zconf.h /usr/local/include
cp -fp libz.a /usr/local/lib

(note, lines may be split strangely due to command prompt)

[Eddi]

which part of that is supposed to say that there was anything wrong?

[Lord Aro]

well later when i try to install libpng, it says that zlib is not installed...

[Alberth]

So have the files been copied into /usr/local/* ?

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if [ "0" = "1" ] ....

doesn't look too promising.

[Lord Aro]

no idea, the instructions don't do it in a single instruction

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wget http://zlib.net/zlib-1.2.5.tar.gz
tar xvfz zlib-1.2.5.tar.gz
cd zlib-1.2.5
make -f win32/Makefile.gcc BINARY_PATH=/usr/local/bin INCLUDE_PATH=/usr/local/include LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib install
cd ..

[Alberth]

You can type 'ls' or 'dir' or so in that directory, or clickerdeclick with your file system browser to that directory, and look whether there are files with the right names there?

[Lord Aro]

i can't find a /usr/local/ directory...

[Terkhen]

Then there is something wrong with your MinGW/MSYS installation. You should have that folder with both the old tutorial (that did not edit fstab) and the new one.

[Lord Aro]

OK, i'll try reinstalling it, again...

I just had a thought, could this be to do with the no admin rights thing? i notice the tutorial mentions it... :/

edit: can someone clarify this section? :

Go to your msys folder (C:\MinGW\msys\1.0), open etc\fstab with a text editor (for example Notepad) and add the following line:

C:\MinGW\ /usr/local

does this mean delete the old line? or add it under the other line?

[oberhümer]

Delete the old one if it also ended with "/usr/local".

[Lord Aro]

it doesn't, it is:

C:\MinGW\ /mingw

[oberhümer]

I'd delete it, why mount the same folder in two different places?