Failed to build gnupg-1.2.4 on Windows with Cygwin and gcc 3.3.1

[John Clizbe]

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Alex Chen wrote:

> I downloaded gnupg-1.2.4 and tried to build it on Windows under Cygwin.
> I did that under the bash shell.  I first ran 'configure', which took
> quite some time to finish.
> Then I ran 'make' from the top directory.  The compilation seemed to
> went smoothly until
> it came to linking.  Then I got the following error messages:
>
> gcc  -g -O2 -Wall   -o mpicalc.exe  mpicalc.o ../cipher/libcipher.a
> ../mpi/libmp
> i.a ../util/libutil.a ../intl/libintl.a
> ../mpi/libmpi.a(mpi-add.o)(.text+0x258): In function `mpi_add':
<snip>
> The list when on and on.  I suspect somehow the compiler was adding the
> leading '_' in referencing
> the functions.  But I do not know how to change the configuration.
>

./configure --disable-asm ?

re-run configure, make clean, then make

./configure && make works out-of-the box with MSys/MinGW without Cygwin's
cygwin1.dll dependency. http://www.mingw.org

The attached patch to configure will enable LDAP support with the
keyserver helpers. If you're going to use MinGW stick with the 3.2 version
of the runtime.

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