Not necessarily, if there are compiler differences an #ifdef may be appropriate, we have some for gcc too. In other cases there could be better alternatives. Why don't you post your problems on this list so that people can suggest solutions?
I don’t think we should have any compiler differences because mingw is currently based on gcc-2.95.3 but we might in the future due to some of the changes we are making. The problems I am having are really simple stupid stuff.
Ok, well the first problem might just be an issue with me, due to a lack of experience with autoconf and automake. I'm using msys and mingw to try and ./configure wine. I can run ./configure with some other software so I think I have everything setup right but I seem to be missing something. Here is the ./configure output.
sh-2.04$ ./configure : command not found : command not found : command not found : command not found : command not found '/configure: line 71: syntax error near unexpected token `do '/configure: line 71: `do sh-2.04$
It seems like this is some sort of bashism because it works fine if I use bash from cygwin under my msys install.
The next problem is when I try to compile wrc on mingw. I haven't messed with bison before so I'm totally lost here. I finally got it to do an y.output so I can try and figure out what is up. Here is the output I get when I try to build wrc.
bison -y -v -d -t ./parser.y conflicts: 2 shift/reduce gcc -c -I. -I. -I../../include -I../../include -g -O2 -Wall -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -D__WINE__ -D_REENTRANT -o y.tab.o y.tab.c gcc: y.tab.c: No such file or directory gcc: No input files make: *** [y.tab.o] Error 1
The last major thing will be the spec and def differences. Because we are compiling with mingw and making windows dlls using dlltool, we need to easily convert from specs to defs. I was going to write a shell script or a simple c program that did this but if anyone has a more elegant solution please feel free to suggest one.
Thanks Steven