Well, despite those very real error messages I had, its gone now with a
full msys reinstall. Same dependencies for 32 bit. I just decided to
try the 64 bit since to me it seemed like you were saying that would be
more likely to work. As part of installing the 64 bit, I decided to
incur more pain
I do understand dependencies :) I just didn't think it was necessary
to list that all out. However, this clearly isn't a dependancy issue!
(Unless you are saying I have to use autoconf 2.5 or something instead
of the current 2.68). I grabbed glib, devel stuff, pkgconfig, etc. Its
all setup. P
Ok, so I figured perhaps my initial attempts with cygwin were the issue,
and perhaps that made it much worse than it should have been. So I
moved the directory and decompressed the archive again, started with
./configure, but as you said (which I didn't see in the docs) I added
--enable-debug. So
Public bug reported:
I've run across all sorts of problems. The first was simple, warnings
treated as errors, and a warning of -fPIC ignored because its generating
all code as position independant. Next came the %hhx's everywhere.
MinGW is apparently following old MSVC non-C99 compliant systems,
