Comments on: How to upgrade your MinGW with commonly used libraries

By: Greg Tada

Greg Tada — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:05:38 +0000

Now I can’t seem to get libtiff to build. Getting a recursive error during link stage (object name conflicts in archive).

By: Greg Tada

Greg Tada — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:59:59 +0000

I was able to compile zlib. Here’s what I did:

tar –lzma -xvf
./msys-build-zlib zlib-1.2.5.tar.bz2
patch <
./configure -prefix=/mingw
make
make install
gcc -shared -o /mingw/bin/zlib1.dll -Wl,â€“out-implib=/mingw/lib/libz.dll.a [!em]*.o
make check

By: jV

jV — Mon, 31 May 2010 07:12:41 +0000

cp win32/makefile.gcc makefile.gcc doesn’t work at all and I cant find anything that works on the net.

By: Frank Henard

Frank Henard — Thu, 13 May 2010 18:50:13 +0000

I found this in http://www.gaia-gis.it/spatialite-2.4.0/mingw_how_to.html:

cd zlib123
cp win32/makefile.gcc makefile.gcc

That may be what I need.

By: Frank Henard

Frank Henard — Thu, 13 May 2010 18:28:22 +0000

Any ideas on the “Please use win32/Makefile.gcc instead” message?

By: Frank Henard

Frank Henard — Wed, 12 May 2010 12:53:36 +0000

Hi Laurence,

These instructions are a great help. It has been a long time since I’ve done C++ programming, and what I have done wasn’t advanced. So on to my question…

I’m trying to install zlib. I attempted ./configure…, and I’m getting this message:

$ ./configure -prefix=/mingw
Checking for gcc…
Please use win32/Makefile.gcc instead.

Then I tried:

$ make
Please use ./configure first. Thank you.

Any ideas?

Also, zlib-1.2.3 is not available, but 1.2.5 is. I installed 1.2.5. Is that ok?

Finally, any tips on good books to understand C++ and all this dependency stuff?

By: Laurence Muller

Laurence Muller — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 02:22:43 +0000

You need to use msys to compile the libraries. It provides a linux like console and supports ./configure

By: nikhilsimha

nikhilsimha — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 21:05:57 +0000

./con… doesn’t work on windows ri8?
or is there a way to make it work