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[reSIProcate] MinGW Build Support


In case anyone is interested: I have added support to the build system for compiling resiprocate under MinGW. Everything compiles and links just fine (although, for reasons I haven't taken the time to track down, sanityTests errors out about 75% of the way through its testing).

If you're unfamiliar with MinGW: MinGW is a system for building native Windows applications using a gnu tool chain. It differs from Cygwin in that it doesn't attempt to provide any posix- or unix- emulation layer beyond what is strictly necessary to make the Gnu tool chain work. Applications are expected to directly use native Windows constructs for operating system services. It is very similar to using the Microsoft command-line compilers from within cmd.exe, but with much better Makefile support.

If you're interested in playing around with this, I've put up a brief summary of what you need to do to build it here:

http://wiki.resiprocate.org/wiki/index.php?title=Quick_Subversion_Checkout_and_Compilation_HOWTO#MinGW_Systems

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