building libraries with mingw

[Ralf Habacker]

Saro Engels schrieb:
> I currently try to make kde-network compile with mingw and there are 
> still some errors left; Since I wanted to get jabber support as well, I 
> try to build libidn myself, but I had no luck yet.
>   
If you refering to libidn from http://www.gnu.org/software/libidn/ the 
reason is because libidn uses automake, which does not work well under 
native win32.

You can try to use a  custom Makefile to generate the library and tools 
or to port it to the cmake buildsystem (see www.cmake.org for more 
informations)
> So to Christian and Ralf: can you point me to how you're making your 
> packages for the installer? 
Packages for the installer could be build with the kdewin-packager tool 
which is part of the kdewin-installer package.

To build a bin/lib and doc package for say mypackage with version 1.2.3 
for mingw you may install the related package from the build dir to a 
temporary location say c:\temp\mypackage-install and run

kdewin-packager -name mypackage -version 1.2.3 -type mingw -root 
c:\temp\mypackage-install.

This will create up to three zip archives in the current directory .

mypackage-mingw-1.2.3-bin.zip
mypackage-mingw-1.2.3-lib.zip
mypackage-mingw-1.2.3-doc.zip

If you like to have a source package too you should add the option 
-srcroot followed by the directory of the source.
There are some more options, which could be displayed when running 
kdewin-packager without any options.

Ralf