[ODE] Building ODE on MinGW platform

[Kevin Kassil]

Hi Rodrigo,

I was building the latest CVS snapshot (9 October 2005) of ODE.  My version of 
make is mingw32-make-3.80.0-1.  I did not use autotools.  I simply edited 
"user-settings" and ran make.

It seems the problem is the lack of white-space between $(AR) and $@ in 
Makefile.  So mingw32-make tries to execute "ar rclib/libode.a" instead of 
"ar rc lib/libode.a".

Once I applied the patch below, ODE was able to build libode.a.

Kevin

Rodrigo Hernandez wrote:
> 
> Is this stable or unstable? if unstable, usually updating to the latest 
> set of autotools (automake and autoconf) fixes any building problems.
> 
> Kevin Kassil wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> On my Win32-MinGW platform, the build failed at lib/libode.a, because 
>> the first two parameters to ar were squished together:
>>
>> ar rclib/libode.a ode/src/array.o <snip>.....
>> ar: illegal option -- /
>> Usage: ar [emulation options] [-]{dmpqrstx}[abcfilNoPsSuvV] <snip>...
>>
>> Here is my suggested patch for Makefile:
>>
>> 282c282
>> < ODE_LIB_AR_RULE=$(AR)$@
>> ---
>> > ODE_LIB_AR_RULE=$(AR) $@
>> 308c308
>> <       $(AR)$@ @dsobj.txt
>> ---
>> >       $(AR) $@ @dsobj.txt
>> 312c312
>> <       $(AR)$@ $(DRAWSTUFF_OBJECTS)
>> ---
>> >       $(AR) $@ $(DRAWSTUFF_OBJECTS)
>>
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Kevin
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