[Qgis-developer] copy of msys.zip?

[Steven Mizuno]

Carson,

I can't offer a copy of the msys.zip file, but I have recently built my own
MinGW/MSys building environment on Windows XP and can offer some tips. I
have generally used the latest production releases of the various 
libraries. I used Marco Pasetti's
http://www.webalice.it/marco.pasetti/qgis+grass/BuildFromSource.html as the
starting point.

My MinGW/MSys was built using the latest 'current' versions and in the
default locations.

1. be sure all import libs are named lib*.dll.a or lib*.a (the MinGW linker
prefers the lib*.dll.a form over the typical static *.a) zlib, in
particular, has an import lib named in a non-standard way - zlibdll.a

2. the pre-built binaries for PostgreSQL, for example, can be used if the
path to the includes/libs does not contain spaces. Use the short form of the
directory name, like C:/Progra~1/... instead of C:/Program Files/..

3. some libs should be built with mingw32-make from a Windows command prompt
if a makefile for MinGW is found. SIP and PyQt create mingw makefiles, so
these, as well as QGIS should be compiled from Windows command prompt.

4. be sure that CMakeSetup points library paths to the *.dll.a files rather
than *.dll  Linking directly to .dll files doesn't work in some cases.

5. if you want to use GEOS 3.0.0 QGIS needs to be compiled with
-DGEOS_INLINE  in CXX_FLAGS

If you have problems with specific areas, let me know. I have some specific
instructions for several of the libs, but haven't got them in a form ready
for sharing with the QGIS community.

Steve


Carson Farmer wrote:
> 
> ... so I'm trying to build QGIS for windows, and am having trouble setting 
> up my msys environment. I was wondering if you (or anyone else on the 
> list) has a copy of the msys.zip file that was once online?
> 

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