How Do I Run ./configure with MinGW?

Question

I am looking at this webpage

http://mathieu.carbou.free.fr/wiki/index.php?title=Glib_for_Win32

And it tells me I need to run the following commands.

./configure
make
make install

How do I actually do this and where can I find these files. I have MinGW and Mysys installed in my C drive.

Answer 1

On Windows there is 2 ways to achieve this if you have MinGW installed you also have to install msys for MinGW some MinGW installations already come pre-installed with msys to check go to your MinGW folder and see if you have a msys folder inside there.

Second make sure the path inside the Environment Variables of your windows is setup to MinGW and msys like so

C:\MinGW\bin;C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\bin

may look different on your system depending where you installed it.

Now you can simply click on msys.bat inside msys\1.0 folder which will open up a shell where you can navigate with ls and dir but you won't be able to leave the msys folder no matter what.

But now you have the ability to run commands like sh inside your Command Prompt which is all you need.

Click on your Windows Start button -> Run -> cmd.exe

now in Command Prompt just run sh command and it should show up as sh-3.1$

now you can navigate to your project folder and run the command

./configure
make
make install

and that should completely build any of your pojects.

Answer 2

configure is a shell file created by libtool, the code must provide one or generate with autoconf or source can provide a ./autogen.sh script for create the configure, sometimes configure is a perl script. maybe the project use another build tool as CMake or QMake...