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RE: Building setup.exe


Max Bowsher wrote:
> Morrison, John wrote:
>> Max Bowsher wrote:
>>> It seems the instructions are out of date.
>>> You need to run ./bootstrap.sh in setup (and it will recurse into
>>> libgetopt++).
>> 
>> bootstrap.sh isn't executable as checkedout of cvs...
> 
> Hmm. Just checked, and libgetopt++/bootstrap.sh isn't either. (Or was
> it for you?) 

Err, didn't check, sorry, I can't remember.  I *might* have changed
this last night without thinking.

> Robert: Shall I tweak this in cvs?

Please, or add it as something to do

>> $ make release
>> <snip>compiling messages</snip>
>> 
>> windres --preprocessor "gcc -mno-cygwin -E -xc-header -DRC_INVOKED"
>> --include-dir . -o res.o res.rc
>> make: *** No rule to make target `zlib/libzcygw.a', needed by
>> `setup.exe'. Stop. 
>> 
>> Oops :)  What's next?  (or should I not make release first?)
> 
> Right.

Err, right?  Right what?  What do I need to do to get an exe?

(sorry, that might have come across a little mean; but then this
is a cygwin list :D - it wasn't intended)

J.

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