Re: RESULT! (was: Re: Building on Windows from scratch - follow up)

2014-05-07 Thread Geert Janssens
On Friday 02 May 2014 14:55:42 John Ralls wrote: then I get the dreaded unrecognized “l” format error, What is the dreaded unrecognized l format error ? I have never seen it on my WinXP test system. In which step do you get this ? It’s that the ancient msvcrt.dll used by MinGW doesn’t

Re: RESULT! (was: Re: Building on Windows from scratch - follow up)

2014-05-07 Thread John Ralls
On May 7, 2014, at 8:54 AM, Geert Janssens janssens-ge...@telenet.be wrote: On Friday 02 May 2014 14:55:42 John Ralls wrote: then I get the dreaded unrecognized “l” format error, What is the dreaded unrecognized l format error ? I have never seen it on my WinXP test system. In which step

Re: RESULT! (was: Re: Building on Windows from scratch - follow up)

2014-05-06 Thread Geert Janssens
On Friday 02 May 2014 14:55:42 John Ralls wrote: On May 2, 2014, at 1:28 PM, Geert Janssens janssens-ge...@telenet.be wrote: On Friday 02 May 2014 11:06:14 John Ralls wrote: The HH installation check is still failing for me, as is the installation. I ran it by hand and got it to install

Re: RESULT! (was: Re: Building on Windows from scratch - follow up)

2014-05-02 Thread John Ralls
On May 1, 2014, at 10:21 AM, Geert Janssens janssens-ge...@telenet.be wrote: On Thursday 01 May 2014 15:55:07 Geert Janssens wrote: Thank you for my feedback. It's nice to hear my effort is appreciated. Sometimes I appear to write utter nonsense... Rereading the above I of course wanted

Re: RESULT! (was: Re: Building on Windows from scratch - follow up)

2014-05-02 Thread Geert Janssens
On Friday 02 May 2014 11:06:14 John Ralls wrote: The HH installation check is still failing for me, as is the installation. I ran it by hand and got it to install in c:\gcdev, but the check fails anyway: I suspect it will fail because the html help install step runs pexports and dlltool on

Re: RESULT! (was: Re: Building on Windows from scratch - follow up)

2014-05-02 Thread John Ralls
On May 2, 2014, at 1:28 PM, Geert Janssens janssens-ge...@telenet.be wrote: On Friday 02 May 2014 11:06:14 John Ralls wrote: The HH installation check is still failing for me, as is the installation. I ran it by hand and got it to install in c:\gcdev, but the check fails anyway: I

Re: RESULT! (was: Re: Building on Windows from scratch - follow up)

2014-05-01 Thread Geert Janssens
On Thursday 01 May 2014 15:55:07 Geert Janssens wrote: Thank you for my feedback. It's nice to hear my effort is appreciated. Your suggestion to move the installation of html help to the top is very useful. I'll check if this is possible and if so will make the necessary changes. I have

Re: RESULT! (was: Re: Building on Windows from scratch - follow up)

2014-05-01 Thread Geert Janssens
On Thursday 01 May 2014 15:55:07 Geert Janssens wrote: Thank you for my feedback. It's nice to hear my effort is appreciated. Sometimes I appear to write utter nonsense... Rereading the above I of course wanted to say Thank you for *your* feedback. Oh well... Too many distractions... Geert