Re: [anouncement] MingGW release for the GNU Ada Project

[Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net>]

Fionn Mac Cumhaill schrieb:
> On Sun, 03 Feb 2008 10:19:38 +0100, Martin Krischik
> <krischik@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> 
>> Fionn Mac Cumhaill wrote:
>>
>>> I finally got around to trying this out today and it crashed - it
>>> wants to have libintl-8.dll and it's nowhere to be found.
>> Did you install MinGW itself - you will need it. This is also one of the
>> advantages of AdaCore releases: they invested the time to tear all needed
>> parts out of MinGW to provide a one .EXE install. We are far from that so
>> you need to install MinGW.
>>
>> Follow instruction on 
>>
>> http://gnuada.sourceforge.net/pmwiki.php/Install/MinGW
>> http://gnuada.sourceforge.net/pmwiki.php/TAR/MinGW
>>
>>
>> Martin
> 
> I already have MinGW and MSYS installed;
> 
> The problem turned out to be gettext; I found a copy of gettext-0.16
> that was a part of an attempt to build gcc 4.2.1 from source; the
> gettext subtree contained a copy of the missing dll. I copied it to a
> directory on my Windows path and the immediate problem went away.
> 
> I couldn't find libintl-8.dll in any of the gettext tarballs from the
> MinGW SourceForge site.

I see - BTW: gettext is on the to-do list:

http://gnuada.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/gnuada/trunk/mingw/SCRIPTS/Make_Get_Text.bash?view=markup

But it has proven tricky.

Martin

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