LIBSMI NOTES FOR NATIVE WIN32 SUPPORT USING MINGW

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@(#) $Id: README.mingw 7800 2008-02-27 13:55:53Z schoenw $

Mingw32 is a gcc based environment allowing to build free Win32

executables.

URL:ftp://ftp.xraylith.wisc.edu/pub/khan/gnu-win32/mingw32/

There are two possible setups. First, you can install the mingw

toolset on a Win32 system and compile the source code. The second

option is to install a mingw cross-compiler on Unix and to use a Unix

box for compilation. The Debian Linux distribution has mingw packages

which make this pretty easy.

USING MINGW ON WIN32

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Fetch and install gcc-2.95.2-crtdll.exe or whatever the latest mingw

distribution is. Set your command.com PATH to c:\mingw\bin;%PATH% (or

whereever you have installed this package).

To compile simply run

	make -f Makefile.mingw

and to install a

	make -f Makefile.mingw install

should do what you expect and 

	make -f Makefile.mingw zip

creates libsmi.zip ready to upload on the FTP server.

Default path's are c:/smi/mibs/... for the MIB-files and c:/smi/bin

for the tools (smidump.exe, ...).

Globalconfig is defined as c:/smi/smi.conf.

USING MINGW ON DEBIAN LINUX

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Install the mingw packages. Edit the Makefile.mingw to set the

compiler and so on. There is already a template in Makefile.mingw. To

compile simply run:

        make -f Makefile.mingw

Installation probably requires some more tweaking of the

Makefile.mingw since it was originally written for the Win32

environment.

TODO's AND KNOWN PROBLEMS

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- The version define is hardwired in config.h.

- The scanner, parser and the smi.h source have to be created within

  a Unix or cygnus environment.

- The SMIPATH separator character is the Windows style ; and not the

  Unix style : .

- Should use configure and not a handmade Makefile.

CONTRIBUTORS

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The mingw support was contributed by:

	Erik Schoenfelder <schoenfr@gaertner.de>

	Juergen Schoenwaelder <schoenw@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de>

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