Re: [Gretl-users] Building gretl under windows: volunteers?
On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Sven Schreiber wrote:
jack schrieb:
>
> Sorry, I wasn't quite clear. The purpose is not to have a windows
> executable; we've got that. The purpose is assembling a recipe for
> compiling the source under windows.
>
Ah I see. I will try it, but I'm expecting to not get it working right away, and I
don't have the
time for long trial-and-error sessions with makefiles and such, sorry.
However, there may be a workaround: Windows users can run Linux as a virtual machine with
the free
vmware player. There are pre-built virtual Linux machines available linked from the vm
website; I'm
currently in the process of trying such a thing out. At least some of those distros
should come with
complete compilers, which would make it possible for Windows users to build gretl on
Linux the same
way as you do, for free (and legally).
I don't know about the performace of vmware. In any case, installing a
whole distro on a virtual machine for the sole purpose of compiling gretl
seems a bit overkill. But, if you have to, choose Debian :-)
Just out of curiosity: assuming you have mingw installed and working, what
happens if you run the "configure" script in the top directory of the
source from a bash shell? Does it run at all? Does it complain about
missing stuff?
Riccardo `Jack' Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Economia
Università Politecnica delle Marche
jack(a)dea.unian.it
http://www.econ.univpm.it/lucchetti