RE: Building on MinGW

[John D]

I had been half hoping that with a successful build with mingw, I could just
pull the latest hg of octave and compile it without issues.
Unfortunately it didn't work so easily  :(

libtool: compile:  g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I../liboctave/cruft/misc
-I../l
iboctave/array -I../liboctave/numeric -I../liboctave/numeric
-I../liboctave/oper
ators -I../liboctave/operators -I../liboctave/system -I../liboctave/util
-I./oct
ave-value -I./operators -Iparse-tree -I./parse-tree -Iinterp-core
-I./interp-cor
e -Iinterpfcn -I./interpfcn -Icorefcn -I../libgnu -I../libgnu
-I/home/jdonoghue/
mxe-octave/usr/i686-pc-mingw32/include -mieee-fp
-I/home/jdonoghue/mxe-octave/us
r/i686-pc-mingw32/include
-IC:/MinGW/msys/1.0/home/jdonoghue/mxe-octave/usr/i686
-pc-mingw32/include/freetype2
-IC:/MinGW/msys/1.0/home/jdonoghue/mxe-octave/usr/
i686-pc-mingw32/include
-IC:/MinGW/msys/1.0/home/jdonoghue/mxe-octave/usr/i686-p
c-mingw32/include -Wall -W -Wshadow -Wformat -Wpointer-arith -Wwrite-strings
-Wc
ast-align -Wcast-qual -g -O2 -pthread -MT
parse-tree/parse_tree_libparser_la-lex
.lo -MD -MP -MF parse-tree/.deps/parse_tree_libparser_la-lex.Tpo -c
parse-tree/l
ex.cc  -DDLL_EXPORT -DPIC -o parse-tree/.libs/parse_tree_libparser_la-lex.o
In file included from lex.ll:94:0:
parse-tree/octave.gperf:83:12: error: 'DO' was not declared in this scope
In file included from lex.ll:94:0:
parse-tree/octave.gperf:86:13: error: 'END' was not declared in this scope
In file included from lex.ll:94:0:
parse-tree/octave.gperf:84:14: error: 'ELSE' was not declared in this scope
In file included from lex.ll:94:0:
parse-tree/octave.gperf:78:15: error: 'BREAK' was not declared in this scope
In file included from lex.ll:94:0:
parse-tree/octave.gperf:112:16: error: 'FUNC_RET' was not declared in this
scope

In file included from lex.ll:94:0:
parse-tree/octave.gperf:104:13: error: 'GET' was not declared in this scope
In file included from lex.ll:94:0:
parse-tree/octave.gperf:79:14: error: 'CASE' was not declared in this scope
In file included from lex.ll:94:0:
parse-tree/octave.gperf:95:20: error: 'END' was not declared in this scope
In file included from lex.ll:94:0:
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