Looks like my first post of this didn't go through... (My apologies if this
is a double-post)

"Michael Roberts" <michael_at_vivtek.com> wrote in message
news:3F215F09.7040304_at_vivtek.com...
> The MinGW32 distribution has a MIS (minimal sys) which at least
> partially supports buildconf and similar things on Windows. I've been
> thinking about looking at that.
>
> Michael

When using MSYS, it's *very close* to working already. I'm not a
./configure guru, so I don't know how to fix the problems I see. It's
pretty clear that the ./configure script gets confused by sockets vs.
winsock, but like I say, I don't know how to change it to actually work.

The make -f makefile.m32 in [curl]/lib works like a charm, though :)

Perhaps a log might help:

$ pwd
[...]/curl-7.10.5

$ ./configure --without-ssl --without-zlib > configure.log 2>
configure.err.log

$ cat configure.log
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking for sed... /bin/sed
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking curl version... 7.10.5
checking build system type... i686-pc-mingw32
checking host system type... i686-pc-mingw32
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output... a.exe
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables... .exe
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for egrep... grep -E
checking for AIX... no
checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... (cached) none needed
checking dependency style of gcc... (cached) gcc3
checking for special C compiler options needed for large files... no
checking for _FILE_OFFSET_BITS value needed for large files... no
checking for _LARGE_FILES value needed for large files... no
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed
checking for ld used by gcc... c:/mingw/mingw32/bin/ld.exe
checking if the linker (c:/mingw/mingw32/bin/ld.exe) is GNU ld... yes
checking for c:/mingw/mingw32/bin/ld.exe option to reload object files... -r
checking for BSD-compatible nm... /mingw/bin/nm
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking how to recognise dependent libraries... file_magic ^x86 archive
import|^x86 DLL
checking for dlltool... dlltool
checking for as... as
checking for objdump... objdump
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking dlfcn.h usability... no
checking dlfcn.h presence... no
checking for dlfcn.h... no
checking for g++... g++
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes
checking dependency style of g++... gcc3
checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... g++ -E
checking for g77... g77
checking whether we are using the GNU Fortran 77 compiler... yes
checking whether g77 accepts -g... yes
checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 8192
checking command to parse /mingw/bin/nm output from gcc object... ok
checking for objdir... .libs
checking for ar... ar
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for strip... strip
checking if gcc static flag works... yes
checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... yes
checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -DDLL_EXPORT
checking if gcc PIC flag -DDLL_EXPORT works... yes
checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes
checking whether the gcc linker (c:/mingw/mingw32/bin/ld.exe) supports
shared libraries... yes
checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... yes
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes
checking dynamic linker characteristics... Win32 ld.exe
checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build static libraries... yes
configure: creating libtool
appending configuration tag "CXX" to libtool
checking for ld used by g++... c:/mingw/mingw32/bin/ld.exe
checking if the linker (c:/mingw/mingw32/bin/ld.exe) is GNU ld... yes
checking whether the g++ linker (c:/mingw/mingw32/bin/ld.exe) supports
shared libraries... yes
checking for g++ option to produce PIC... -DDLL_EXPORT
checking if g++ PIC flag -DDLL_EXPORT works... yes
checking if g++ supports -c -o file.o... yes
checking whether the g++ linker (c:/mingw/mingw32/bin/ld.exe) supports
shared libraries... yes
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes
checking dynamic linker characteristics... Win32 ld.exe
appending configuration tag "F77" to libtool
checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build static libraries... yes
checking for g77 option to produce PIC... -DDLL_EXPORT
checking if g77 PIC flag -DDLL_EXPORT works... yes
checking if g77 supports -c -o file.o... yes
checking whether the g77 linker (c:/mingw/mingw32/bin/ld.exe) supports
shared libraries... yes
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes
checking dynamic linker characteristics... Win32 ld.exe
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... (cached) yes
checking whether to support http... yes
checking whether to support ftp... yes
checking whether to support gopher... yes
checking whether to support file... yes
checking whether to support ldap... yes
checking whether to support dict... yes
checking whether to support telnet... yes
checking whether to enable ipv6... no
checking for gethostbyname... no
checking for gethostbyname in -lnsl... no
checking for gethostbyname... (cached) no
checking for gethostbyname in -lsocket... no
checking trying both nsl and socket libs... no

$ cat configure.err.log
configure: error: couldn't find libraries for gethostbyname()

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