Some testing for me seems to reveal that if you: * install MSYS as well as MINGW, and add both the MINGW and MSYS bin directories to your Windows PATH * use the MSYS make * set CFLAGS in the tzcode Makefile to -DHAVE_SYS_WAIT_H=0 -DHAVE_SYS_STAT_H=0 -DHAVE_SYMLINK=0 * set cc in the tzcode Makefile to gcc * write a wrapper function for link() mapping it to the Windows NT CreateHardLink function: #include <errno.h> #define _WIN32_WINNT 0x0500 #include <windows.h> int link(const char* path1, const char* path2) { BOOL createdLink = CreateHardLinkA(path2, path1, NULL); if (!createdLink) { errno = EACCES; /* ?? Should map GetLastError to errno */ return -1; } return 0; } * include the source file containing link() in the Makefile's TZCSRCS variable, and its corresponding object file in TZCOBJS * and run on a file system that supports hard links, e.g. NTFS Then make zic; make zones works. You'll probably also want to set the TZDIR variable in the makefile to something more Windows-sensible than /usr/local/etc/zoneinfo. If you need to support older filesystems, e.g. FAT32, you could alternately map link() to CopyFile instead. -- Jonathan Lennox lennox@cs.columbia.edu On Tuesday, July 6 2010, "Yves Goergen" wrote to "tz@lecserver.nci.nih.gov" saying:
On 06.07.2010 18:30 CE(S)T, Alan Barrett wrote:
I thought you were trying to build zic? tzselect is something different. (Try "make zic" instead of just "make".)
That leads to:
C:\Programme\MinGW\tz>mingw32-make zic makefile:306: warning: overriding commands for target `install' makefile:287: warning: ignoring old commands for target `install' cc -DTZDIR=\"/usr/local/etc/zoneinfo\" -c -o zic.o zic.c process_begin: CreateProcess(NULL, cc -DTZDIR=\"/usr/local/etc/zoneinfo\" -c -o zic.o zic.c, ...) failed. make (e=2): Das System kann die angegebene Datei nicht finden. mingw32-make: *** [zic.o] Error 2
Seems tz resists building on Windows? Has nobody ever tried yet?
Think I'll retry with Visual Studio and modify the source code to define some macros to make it more friendly.
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