[Gdal-dev] Compiling ogr/gdal on win32 using MingW

[Norman Vine]

Norman Vine writes:
> 
> or do as I do and install a MingW tree inside of Cygwin
> 
> i.e.  I have established my MingW root at /usr/mingw
> and install mingw files under it
> 
> then  # mingw make doesn't understand Unix filenames
> % cp /bin/make.exe to /usr/mingw/bin
> 
> and when I configure a MingW build I use
> 
> ./configure --prefix=/usr/mingw --host=mingw32

OF course you need to insure that 

Of course when using MingW like this you have to setup your path
appropriately too

i.e.
% export PATH="/usr/mingw/bin:$PATH"

HTH

Norman