Building a MinGW build of aspell without much luck :(

Christopher Faylor cgf@redhat.com
Fri Jun 21 06:03:00 GMT 2002


On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 01:43:33AM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
>As Earnie mentioned in the announcement for the most recent update of 
>the mingw-runtime and w32api packages for cygwin, libmingwex is a new 
>addition.
>
>>To use these functions, you will need to explicitly add -lmingwex to 
>>your command line. In future releases of GCC, libmingwex.a will 
>>become a system lib added automatically by specs. 
>
>So, it's not a bug that current gcc's spec file doesn't have it; it's a 
>new feature of mingw-runtime that is not yet supported by our gcc.

Ah, that's right, I missed this announcement.  My spam filter kicked it
out as spam for some reason so it never even got forwarded (by my procmail
forwarder rule) to the cygwin mailing list.

cgf

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