Compiling under mingw

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LordHoto
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Post by LordHoto »

Lostech wrote:@LordHoto:
I gave Cygwin a try because it normally has less problems as MinGW. So this was JFI.
From what I remember Cygwin always was a bit worse at building native Windows applications. But maybe that changed?
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I wasn't sure, but after reading http://www.mingw.org/wiki/Getting_Started, I recall that I used mingw-get-setup.exe to bootstrap and did install the MinGW Shell and utilities i.e. MSYS to use this.
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Post by Lostech »

OK, I did try again with a fresh MinGW installation.
  • installation with all basic packages enabled
  • MSYS fstab correction (or just using fstab.sample as fstab)
  • precompiled libraries (http://sourceforge.net/projects/scummvm ... p/download) extracted to MinGW folder
  • git clone or source tarball of ScummVM
  • ./configure && make -> there we go :)
ScummVM did compile fine now. No errors seen. :) But it would be nice if the building process would do also a "strip scummvm.exe" ;)

Didn´t try enabling non-default engines but I think they will compile also if not already known as broken.
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