Wine on cygwin

[Austin English]

On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 12:36 PM, dominik<dominik at die-strassers.de> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I've just tried to build wine on cygwin in order to build the test suite in
> order to maybe find out why some tests fail on my machine.
>
> configure runs reasonably well, but when the first dll is being built, hell
> breaks loose.
>
> The assembler files generated from the .spec files are not accepted by "as".
>
> .section ".init","ax"
> yields
> a.0dtc3a.s: Assembler messages:
> a.0dtc3a.s:5: Error: junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is
> `"'
>
> Then there is:
> .hidden __wine_spec_nt_header
> =>
> a.0dtc3a.s:14: Error: unknown pseudo-op: `.hidden'
>
>  .type __wine_stub_EditAuditInfo, at function
> =>
> a.iNk2s9.s:81: Warning: .type pseudo-op used outside of .def/.endef ignored.
> a.iNk2s9.s:81: Error: junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is
> `_'
>
> and much more ...
>
> Are those Linux-specific assembler directives ?
>
> Does anybody have an idea on how to workaround those ?
>
> Regards
>
> Dominik
>
>
>
>

The cygwin build is pretty broken...you can build the tests for
windows really easily on Linux/Unix if you install mingw.

Just 'sudo apt-get/yum/etc. install mingw', then ./configure in your
wine tree. Use 'make crosstest' to build the windows tests.

-- 
-Austin