Building on MinGW (Was: [Metakit] Trouble with linking C++ DLLs)

[Edmond Ho]

> > Yes, it should.  Something like:
> >       cd builds
> >       sh ../unix/configure
> >       make
> > I.e. the same way things get built on Unix.
> >
> > -jcw
>
> My initial attempt wasn't successful - when the make script runs
>
> gcc -shared -o libmk4.so column.o custom.o derived.o fileio.o field.o
> format.o handler.o persist.o remap.o std.o store.o string.o table.o univ.o
> view.o viewx.o
>
> gcc fails with screens and screens full of undefined references. I also
> note that "libmk4.so" should presumably be "libmk4.dll" for MinGW.
>
> I'll investigate further this evening and check that my environment is
> sane - I'm using the MSYS/MinGW download from tcl.sf.net rather than the
> one from the mingw.org. Watch this space.
>
> Gareth

I experienced the same problem when trying to compile the library in a
Cygwin/MinGW environment, which was why I tried to link my program to
the precompiled Metakit binaries.

I'll try to compile the library again tonight.

Edmond