MinGW/MSYS development environment - Building extra tools

This section describes how to compile some extra packages. You can skip this section if you don't need them.

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Building readline
Building gperf

Readline is a set of libraries that offers command-line editing and history capabilities.

Homepage: http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/php/chet/readline/rltop.html
Download: readline-6.2.tar.gz

Build and install readline by executing the following commands:

cd $LOCALBUILDDIR && \
wget -c ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/pub/bash/readline-6.2.tar.gz && \
tar zxf readline-6.2.tar.gz && \
cd readline-6.2 && \
./configure --prefix=$LOCALDESTDIR && \
make SHLIB_LIBS=-lpdcurses && \
make install

gperf is a perfect hash function generator.

Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/gperf/
Download: gperf-3.0.4.tar.gz

Build and install gperf by executing the following commands:

cd $LOCALBUILDDIR && \
wget -c http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gperf/gperf-3.0.4.tar.gz && \
tar zxf gperf-3.0.4.tar.gz && \
cd gperf-3.0.4 && \
./configure --prefix=$LOCALDESTDIR && \
make && \
make install

wget is a utility for downloading files from the internet

Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/
Download: http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/wget/wget-1.12.tar.bz2

By building wget we replace

Build and install wget by executing the following commands:

# edit src/host.c
# comment out the line 
#	/extern int h_errno;
#
# after configure: edit src/config.h
#	#undef HAVE_SYMLINK
#	#undef HAVE_USLEEP
#
# make fails to link the exe:
#	append -lws2_32 to the command 
# (adding LDFLAGS to ./configure doesn't work)
#
cd $LOCALBUILDDIR && \
wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/wget/wget-1.12.tar.bz2 && \
tar xjf wget-1.12.tar.bz2 && \
cd wget-1.12 && \
CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -DWINDOWS" ./configure --prefix=$LOCALDESTDIR --disable-iri && \
make && \
make install