Re: Win32 version using cygwin

[Henk Jonas <MetaView@xxxxxx>]

Jens Granseuer wrote:
> On 31.01.2007 12:21, Henk Jonas wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > at the moment I'm updating the Palm version to the latest CVS. To get 
> > the game data I decided to create the windows version using cygwin. Also 
> > it will be helpful to get the network stuff running under PalmOS. I got 
> > some compilation problems:
>
> I don't know if anybody ever tried to compile on cygwin before, but it
> would be nice to get this working.

I got 0.49 running under cygwin.

> > 1. fileio.h
> >
> > #if HAVE_DIRENT_H
> > # include <dirent.h>
> > ...
> > #elif defined WIN32
> > # include <windows.h>
> >
> > leads on my system to not include the windows.h file which then leads to 
> > all the windows native defines missing. I had to add windows.h by my own.
>
> Because you HAVE_DIRENT_H or because WIN32 is not defined?
> A bit of googling turned up this:
>
>   "Cygwin now does not default to defining WIN32 defines unless
>    used with the -mwin32 option."

WIN32 is defined, but HAVE_DIRENT_H too, that's the problem.

> > 2. fileio.cpp, get_home_dir()
> >
> > SHGetSpecialFolderPath is missing at the moment. Someone has a clue what 
> > to include? I'm in a hurry right now and will investigate more in the 
> > evening if no one came up with some help :-)
>
> Can't help with that.

This was a missing define for _WIN32_IE which I just fixed by adding a line
#define _WIN32_IE  0x0400
above the # include <shlobj.h> in fileio.cpp

Now the executables doesn't run, but I hope it's only a missing DLL.

Regards
Henk

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