[Bf-committers] Scons Mingw Build environment

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Hey Campbell,

For one thing some of the msvc 6 developers can't do a debug build.  
Also while MS has realeased their C compiler for free on their 
website they don't have debugging tools available for free to work 
with it.

The Minimal Gnu for Windows system has IMO more tools available for 
the developer to use and better access to them. for the person who 
doesn't want to buy the MSVC suite of tools from microsoft.

Besides I just want to to be able to use it :-)

On 21 Jun 2004 at 14:59, Campbell Barton wrote:

> hi Jeremy
> what are the advantages of usung mingw?
> 
> -cam
> 
> jeremy@marzhillstudios.com wrote:
> 
> >Update:
> >
> >I couldn't stop working on it even after I should have stopped and 
> >taken a break. The result? I fixed the problem outlined in the 
> >previous email now it just has a whole bunch of unresolved references 
> >to sort out. I'm putting it away for the night now. Really I am!!
> >
> >I'll get a patch of what I did and send it to the list tomorrow. 
> >Maybe someone can help sort out the unresolved symbol issues.
> >
> >This is really close I think to being workable. I know a number of 
> >people have been looking for a way to use mingw on windows and so I 
> >hope this is of interest to all of ya.
> >
> >  
> >
> >>I've almost got a working build using MingW and scons.
> >>
> >>I've hacked the sconsctuct and sconscript files to create a mingw 
> >>build environment which can be activated by typing scons mingw=1
> >>
> >>I've added a hack to handle the long command line bug.
> >>
> >>mingw doesn't like the quicktime code so it's disabled in the build 
> >>environment.
> >>
> >>The last hurdle I think is in the linking stage it can't find 
> >>extern_solid for starters. I don't know enough about scons to get 
> >>point it in the right direction. For all I know it's not getting 
> >>built or I've missed something in configuring the build environment. 
> >>If anyone is interested it helping me out I'll be happy to provide a 
> >>patch of the files, and the error I got.
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