RE: Windows compler need (was RE: wget 1.11 alpha 1 released)
From: Travis Loyd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 5:45 PM Hello gang, I'm considering building the Windows releases for you. My initial attempts to build wget resulted in an error when performing ./configure: Sorry about the delay. Travis, in what environment are you building ? I see configure and bash, I suppose you are trying to build a cygnus binary. While that one needs to be tested, too, I was referring to the native Visual C binary without need for the cygnus runtime. You'll need a current VC environment, build the openssl libraries (the first time and whenever there are important changes like security fixes), add those to the VC environment, configure.bat --msvc, nmake. Can anybody confirm if the current alpha (or at least late subversion exports) does build cleanly ? If not, if there are some problems, if it is the first time you are trying to attempt this, I'd advice to try with the 1.10.1 sources first (since those are known to build cleanly) in order to straight out your setup, if nobody else does step in I'll try to help you whenever possible. Heiko -- -- PREVINET S.p.A. www.previnet.it -- Heiko Herold [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- +39-041-5907073 / +39-041-5917073 ph -- +39-041-5907472 / +39-041-5917472 fax
Bug in GNU Wget 1.x (Win32)
Hello there, I have to say that Wget is one of the most useful tools out there(from my point of view of course). I'm using the Win32 version of it to make life with XP little more bearable. (faking Internet Explorer like mad, all over the place) Well on to the thing i call a bug. The bug only affects the Win32 version. It seems that when a file name(not the extension) in an URL is either nul, con, com1 and so on Wget goes into an endless loop(did not wait that long though). I reproduced the bug with Win32 versions 1.5.dontremeber, 1.10.1 and 1.10.2. I did also test version 1.6 on Linux but it was not affected. Example URLs that reproduce the bug : wget g/nul wget http://www.gnu.org/nul wget http://www.gnu.org/nul.html wget -o loop.end http://www.gnu.org/nul.html; I know that the bug is associated with words which are devices in the windows console, but i don't understand why, since I tried to set the output file to something else. But then again i did not look at the source code so i only have my self to blame. This could be a known problem, or it will not be fixed because Wget is native to Linux, but i thought you guys should at least notified about this. Best regards, Throstur S. Eidsson.
