Re: Makefiles for building with mingw32 on win32

OK, I found Peter E saying this:

> > >Can't you run configure on mingw32?
> > >
> > It doesn't work on my system. If somebody gets this to work, why not
> > submit a patch to the documentation?
>
> What do you mean with "work"? You don't have a shell, configure aborts
> with an error, ...? It would be a whole lot prettier to make this work
> instead of having to maintain yet another non-standard makefile.

Can we actually get configure to work on Win32, and if we can, why do we
have other Win32 makefiles? I don't understand why Peter E was saying
we should use configure either.

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> On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 11:19:20PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >
> > We are waiting to see if you can get the existing Win32 makefiles to
> ^^^ erhm!!
> > work on both compilers, right?
>
> I assume you mean getting
> - setting-weird-environment-variables
> - calling ./configure with weird parameters
> - calling make with parameters
> - hack configure.in
> - execute autoconf
>
> to work, right?
>
> > > [me:]
> > > Makefiles for building the win32 parts with the native (mingw32) mode of gcc
>
> Ok. As I said, I need somebody who is knowledgable in autoconf and Cygwin whom
> I can bug, or better yet, who just steps forward and invests an hour or two to
> do this, document it and submit a patch.
>
> Volunteers/helpers are wery welcome, also in PM, of course.
>
> later,
>
> Gerhard
>
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