Compiling Wine on Cygwin/with MSVC

[Alexandre Julliard]

"Martin Fuchs" <martin-fuchs at gmx.net> writes:

> when trying to compile WINE using Cygwin I am getting errors such as:  (this example for wine/programs/notepad)
>
> gcc -c -I. -I. -I../../include -I../../include -I../../include/msvcrt -DNO_LIBWINE_PORT -D_REENTRANT -Wall -pipe -mprefe
> rred-stack-boundary=2 -fno-strict-aliasing -gstabs+ -Wpointer-arith  -g -O2 -o License_En.o License_En.c
> In file included from /usr/include/w32api/objfwd.h:7,
>                  from /usr/include/w32api/objidl.h:7,
>                  from ../../include/objbase.h:270,
>                  from ../../include/ole2.h:25,
>                  from ../../include/windows.h:77,
>                  from License_En.c:1:
> /usr/include/w32api/basetyps.h:124: error: Syntaxfehler before '*' token
> /usr/include/w32api/basetyps.h:125: error: Syntaxfehler before '*' token
> /usr/include/w32api/basetyps.h:127: error: Syntaxfehler before '*' token
> In file included from ../../include/objbase.h:270,
>                  from ../../include/ole2.h:25,
>                  from ../../include/windows.h:77,
>                  from License_En.c:1:
> /usr/include/w32api/objidl.h:10: error: Syntaxfehler before "LPOLESTR"

It looks like you are mixing includes from Wine and Mingw, that's not
going to work well. My guess is that you didn't run make from the
top-level directory, so Wine didn't get a chance to build its includes
and Mingw falls back to the w32api ones.

-- 
Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.org