[elinks-dev] How to compile ELinks for Win32?

Jonas Fonseca fonseca at diku.dk
Thu Jun 7 21:54:58 MDT 2007


Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <kon at iki.fi> wrote Fri, Jun 08, 2007:
> src/osdep/win32/ was last updated in ELinks 0.12.GIT on 2006-07-02.
> From the commit messages, I get the impression that the Win32 port
> is supposed to compile and link correctly and even work partially.
> However, the build system of ELinks heavily depends on GNU Make and
> POSIX utilities, and I believe these are not generally available on
> Microsoft Windows.  Can ELinks be built on Windows in its current
> condition, or must it be cross-compiled?  Which compiler and tools
> should be used?

The last time I worked and tested this I used MSYS / MingW, which comes
with gmake and shell utilities to run the configure script. I haven't
tried since.

-- 
Jonas Fonseca


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