[ODE] Building ODE on MinGW platform

[Rodrigo Hernandez]

Snapshot?

The problem might have been fixed already, besides I think there is an 
unofficial consensus about the old configure
procedure being deprecated in favor of autotools.

I highly recomend grabbing a copy of the UNSTABLE branch over a cvs 
snapshot, I have descrived the process on how to go about it several 
times on the list.

Cheers!

Kevin Kassil wrote:

>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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>>> 
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>
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