Re: Building on MinGW using MXE-built dependencies [WAS: Re: mxe-installer try 2]

[John W. Eaton]

On 06/10/2013 07:30 PM, John D wrote:

> I think the only one I changed so that it compiled statically only was
> ncurses, which from memory displayed an error  saying it couldn't compile as
> a shared, and I couldn't get it to  work except as a static lib.
> If you can get it to work, then go for it!

For now, I changed the list of dependencies for readline to use termcap 
instead of ncurses.  That seems to work.

> I did add installs of  static libs for a couple of the libraries that only
> installed the dynamic library (or nothing)
>
> Did you have any problems with qrupdate and tar?
> I have found a workaround for  it, to use cpio instead of tar for the ming
> build if we need to ogo that route.

I didn't see a problem with extracting the qrupdate tar file, but there 
was a build failure because the configure script was failing to find the 
BLAS library.  I fixed that by adding LDFLAGS=... to the configure 
command line.

jwe