Important note about compiling with MINGW-auto-dl-installer

[bornemix]

Hi,

Using the MINGW automatic installer right now won't work,

sence it downloads GCC 3.4.5 which is too low for the libraries (included with warzone2100) that are supposed to be compiled.

The latest version which is available from the same sourceforge project is 4.4.0. Because of this, some of you will see errors of this sort:

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/warzone2100-downloader/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/3.4.5/../../.
./libGLC.a(libGLC_la-render.o):render.c:(.text+0x1d): undefined reference to `__
emutls_get_address'

If you want to use MINGW, you need to manually download the newest packages (gcc-core-4.4.0-mingw32-bin.tar.gz, also possibly gcc-c++-4.4.0-mingw32-bin.tar.gz)...

Although, there are probably more errors that need fixing if you want to successfully compile wz, but this is regarding MINGW itself.

[Zarel]

Alternatively, you could use an old version of the devpkg (which is what I've been doing - it seems to work quite well).

It's nice to know why never devpkgs don't work, though - thanks for the information!

[Buginator]

Another note, if you update the compiler / binutils, then it will hose our crash reports, since binutils + libbfd need to match for our exception handler to work correctly.

Which means, I wouldn't use the newer mingw just yet.

[bornemix]

Hi Bug.

You say that we shouldn't use newer tools than is currently supported by the wz-source - which is fair enough.

BUT, sence mingw auto-install downloads whatever it wants, warzone doesn't currently compile.

You tell me: don't update the mingw just yet - but in that case, what SHOULD we use?

I'm currently downloading and using:

binutils-2.20.1-2-mingw32-bin.tar.gz
gcc-core-3.4.5-20060117-3.tar.gz
gcc-g++-3.4.5-20060117-3.tar.gz
make-3.81-20090914-mingw32-bin.tar.gz
mingwrt-3.18-mingw32-dev.tar.gz
mingwrt-3.18-mingw32-dll.tar.gz
w32api-3.14-mingw32-dev.tar.gz

Please give me the versions of your mingw downloads.

[cybersphinx]

Or use the newer mingw and compile a matching binutils/libbfd (though if you don't distribute your builds and don't need useful crashdumps yourself, you could just use the existing stuff, if it works).

[Buginator]

Hi Bug.

You say that we shouldn't use newer tools than is currently supported by the wz-source - which is fair enough.

BUT, sence mingw auto-install downloads whatever it wants, warzone doesn't currently compile.

You tell me: don't update the mingw just yet - but in that case, what SHOULD we use?

I'm currently downloading and using:

binutils-2.20.1-2-mingw32-bin.tar.gz
gcc-core-3.4.5-20060117-3.tar.gz
gcc-g++-3.4.5-20060117-3.tar.gz
make-3.81-20090914-mingw32-bin.tar.gz
mingwrt-3.18-mingw32-dev.tar.gz
mingwrt-3.18-mingw32-dll.tar.gz
w32api-3.14-mingw32-dev.tar.gz

Please give me the versions of your mingw downloads.

I use mingw on debian, so, whatever packages is in their repo, that is the one I use... If I remember, I will dump out the versions the next time I am on that machine.

[BunkerBlaster]

Please give me the versions of your mingw downloads.

I use mingw on debian, so, whatever packages is in their repo, that is the one I use... If I remember, I will dump out the versions the next time I am on that machine.

I would like to know also, whenever you have time.

[Buginator]

I use mingw on debian, so, whatever packages is in their repo, that is the one I use... If I remember, I will dump out the versions the next time I am on that machine.

I would like to know also, whenever you have time.

Sorry, forgot.
My switch died on me, so my linux box is out of commission for a bit... just look in win32/libs and you will find what packages we need, and the versions we use.

[BlueMaxima]

Can someone stick a step-by-step up? Cause I really wanna compile trunk :/

[Mysteryem]

Can someone stick a step-by-step up? Cause I really wanna compile trunk :/

Yeah, that would be very useful, I'm also unable to compile trunk now.

[JDW]

Can someone stick a step-by-step up? Cause I really wanna compile trunk :/

Yeah, that would be very useful, I'm also unable to compile trunk now.

Boy, I'm sure glad I use Linux.

[BlueMaxima]

Boy, I'm sure glad I use Linux.

I've got trunk going on it

[JDW]

Boy, I'm sure glad I use Linux.

I've got trunk going on it

Well, it's about time.