MinGW bugs? (was Re: [ros-kernel] Greetings)

Andrew "Silver Blade" Greenwood lists at silverblade.co.uk
Sun Jan 18 18:38:26 CET 2004


I downloaded the latest MinGW and GCC/G++ packages, but for some reason
ReactOS still will not compile, giving me an error about authors.c or
something??

Also, NONE of my programs compile any more - not even the wxWindows library
which they use will compile!

So what am I doing wrong? :(










----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ge van Geldorp" <ge at gse.nl>
To: "'ReactOS Kernel List'" <ros-kernel at reactos.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2004 6:07 PM
Subject: RE: [ros-kernel] Greetings


> From: michael martin
>
> Ive downloaded and browsed the source and havent found
> anything on how to compile it.
> I know i need ming, but not sure version +components. Someone give me
> direction here?

Sure. What you need to install to successfully compile 0.2 is:

- MinGW 3.1.0-1
  http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/MinGW-3.1.0-1.exe?download
  (this includes w32api 2.4)

- GCC 3.3.1

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/gcc-core-3.3.1-20030804-1.tar.g
z?download

- G++ 3.3.1

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/gcc-g++-3.3.1-20030804-1.tar.gz
?download

- NASM

http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/devel/nasm/binaries/win32/nasm-0.98-w
in32.zip

(beware of line wrap).
You need to install MinGW 3.1.0-1 first, then install GCC/G++ 3.3.1 in
the same directory, so e.g. the new gcc binary overwrites the one
already there (MinGW 3.1.0-1 includes the older gcc 3.2.3).
After that, you should be able to just do a "make all" in the reactos
CVS directory. (Actually, it might be "mingw32-make all").

> Also, do you guys/girls think there would be any benifit in speed by
> translating some of the c to asm?

At this point in the life of ReactOS, I'd say we can gain infinitely
more speed by adjusting algorithms.

> Again great work, hope I can do something useful.

We hope so too :)
If you're looking for something to do, the bug list at
http://www.reactos.com/bugzilla might be a good start. Or drop by on
IRC.

Gé van Geldorp.


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