Compiling with Cygwin and MinGW

Hello,

If anyone is interested, here's what you need to do to get TGE to compile with gcc v3 in MinGW mode under the Cygwin environment without any dependency on cygwin1.dll.

First, make sure you have the following Cygwin packages installed:

gcc
gcc-core
gcc-g++
gcc-mingw
gcc-mingw-core
gcc-mingw-g++
mingw-runtime

Make a few small modifications to 'mk/conf.GCC3.WIN32.mk':

LINK.cc =g++

CFLAGS.GENERAL = -mno-cygwin -Wno-conversion -MD -march=i586 -fno-exceptions -fpermissive # -mwin32

LFLAGS.GENERAL = -mno-cygwin # -m i386pe

LINK.LIBS.GENERAL = -lcomdlg32 -luser32 -ladvapi32 -lgdi32 -lwinmm -lwsock32 -lvfw32 $(LINK.LIBS.VORBIS)
LINK.LIBS.TOOLS = -lcomdlg32 -luser32 -ladvapi32 -lgdi32 -lwinmm -lwsock32 -lvfw32

Basically, changing the link step to use 'g++' instead of 'ld' and passing the '-mno-cygwin' option to all compile and link steps makes it work. '-lmingw' was removed from the LINK.LIBS lines because it's included by '-mno-cygwin'. I've only been working with Release_1_3_0, so that's the only version I can guarantee this works.

No one probably cares because it's easy just to go out and get MinGW separately, but I thought I'd let you know.....

- John

P.S. Hi, I'm new here!