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Re: Building setup.exe


Morrison, John wrote:
> Max Bowsher wrote:
>> Morrison, John wrote:
>>> Max Bowsher wrote:
>>>> Morrison, John wrote:
>>>>> $ 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?
>> 
>> Well, *yes*, you shouldn't run make release first. Do "make".
> 
> Doh!  Sorry, am (obviously) not feeling too bright this morning.
> Take my advice; don't accept any patches from me without *REALLY*
> going through it! ;)
> 
> Thanks, everything works now.  Do you want me to read through your
> revised web page before it goes up?

Initially, I will just trivially edit the sentence about bootstrap.sh.

Any non-trivial changes will be discussed on this list.

Max.


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