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Re: Building setup.exe
Morrison, John wrote:
> Max Bowsher wrote:
>> Morrison, John wrote:
>>> Max Bowsher wrote:
>>>> Morrison, John wrote:
>>>>> $ make release
>>>>> <snip>compiling messages</snip>
>>>>>
>>>>> windres --preprocessor "gcc -mno-cygwin -E -xc-header -DRC_INVOKED"
>>>>> --include-dir . -o res.o res.rc
>>>>> make: *** No rule to make target `zlib/libzcygw.a', needed by
>>>>> `setup.exe'. Stop.
>>>>>
>>>>> Oops :) What's next? (or should I not make release first?)
>>>>
>>>> Right.
>>>
>>> Err, right? Right what? What do I need to do to get an exe?
>>
>> Well, *yes*, you shouldn't run make release first. Do "make".
>
> Doh! Sorry, am (obviously) not feeling too bright this morning.
> Take my advice; don't accept any patches from me without *REALLY*
> going through it! ;)
>
> Thanks, everything works now. Do you want me to read through your
> revised web page before it goes up?
Initially, I will just trivially edit the sentence about bootstrap.sh.
Any non-trivial changes will be discussed on this list.
Max.