[ros-dev] Help to tester : Build Ros on WIN98 PC - WORKAROUND = OK

[Gge]

Alex Ionescu wrote:
> Gge wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Buiding Reactos on a Win98  machine does noy work anymore ( at least 
>> for me) . It was working several ago.
>>
>> The make clean fails as well with these error messages :
>>
>> -----------------------------
>> tshared: [CLEAN]
>> RM]      /include/roscfg.h
>> trop de paramètres - buildno.exe
>>  ==== Too many parameters
>> fichier introuvable
>>  === File not found
>> trop de paramètres - wine2ros.exe
>> trop de paramètres - winebuild.exe
>> trop de paramètres - bin2res.exe
>> wpp: [CLEAN]
>> unicode: [CLEAN]
>> C:\Svn\reactos>mingw32-make
>> --------------------------------

  > Yeah, we kind of broke it on purpose because of a bug in binutils with
> relocation data. Nobody has created an easy solution yet, however using 
> Reactos's CMD.EXE in win98 will work and should bypass this problem..
> 
> Best regards,
> Alex Ionescu

Thanks Alex,

The workaround you proposed is working fine

Regards
Gerard