Hello Kees, > If you like, I can share some additional changes I've made, e.g. Visual Studio > does not like -g flag, a WIN32 define that should be _WIN32 (a CL.exe built-in > macro), a workaround for missing #include_next directive (which is not > supported by Visual Studio), a struct that is in sys/time.h instead of time.h > (utimens.c). Please let me know the preferred format of changed. Is a UNIX > style patch ok (using gzip-1.8.18-00e6 as reference)?
Most of these troubles should go away if you use the 'compile' and 'ar-lib' auxiliary scripts, as described in section 2 of http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gperf.git;a=blob_plain;f=README.windows These instructions were tested with GNU gperf and a couple of other GNU packages. They should be applicable to GNU gzip as well. > Background: I tried to get the Visual Studio build working by performing the > following steps: > a. open a Visual Studio command prompt (that have set LIB, INCLUDE etc > environment variables) > b. from within this prompt, start Cygwin shell > c. run CC=cl.exe ./configure It is in this step 'c' that the 'compile' auxiliary script becomes useful. Bruno
