@ -790,92 +790,8 @@ copy them from other GNU tools.
(from rework-14 release) to the Windows Operating System. His port relies
only on DLLs coming with Windows.
The following text is the email sent to the users' mailing list describing
his port:
@quotation
Dear all,
I have successfully made a pure Windows port of ng-spice-rework-14
using CYGWIN and MINGW32.
Results are @file{ngspice.exe} and @file{ngnutmeg.exe} which only rely on
dlls coming with MS WINDOWS (tested on WINDOWS ME so far).
Several files have been edited, all above @file{configure.in} to comply with
the autotools from CYGWIN. Other @file{*.c} have been edited and patched with
@code{#ifdef __MINGW32__ ... #endif}. Compared to the CYGWIN port for
WINDOWS only minor modifications have been done. Still the WINDOWS port
from Wolfgang M@:ues is used. The resulting source code should still be
compatible to LINUX or UNIX porting (including autotools). I have however
not tested that.
The changes are attached in @file{mingw.patch.bz2}. This file is also cleaned
a bit compared to @file{my.zip} from my last posting.
This is how I made ngspice with CYGWIN and external MINGW32 with the attached
patches applied to ng-spice-rework-14:
according to
@url{http://www.geocrawler.com/@/lists/3/@/SourceForge/@/6013/0/@/7321042/}
@c note - the '@/' allows TeX to insert a line break if necessary
CYGWIN is installed in @file{C:\cygwin}.
MINGW32 is installed in @file{g:\gcc_mingw}.
@example
$ cd ng-spice-rework-14
$ export PATH="/cygdrive/g/gcc_mingw/bin:$PATH"
$ automake
$ autoconf
$ rm config.cache
$ ./configure --with-windows \
--prefix="/cygdrive/g/gcc_mingw/bin"
$ make clean
$ make 2> make.err
$ cp config.h config_ming.h (for use described below)
@end example
@file{ngspice.exe} is o.k., but @command{make check} does not work (cannot
directly output console into file). I have switched off garbage collection
for the moment because it produces errors as I have already posted. Perhaps
the WINDOWS port of gc6.0 which I made is not yet o.k..
I also tried to make ngspice with CYGWIN and internal MINGW32 coming with
the CYGWIN installation:
@example
$ cd ng-spice-rework-14
$ rm config.cache
$ export CFLAGS="-mno-cygwin -g -O2"
$ export LDFLAGS="-L/lib/mingw"
$ export CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/include/mingw"
$ ./configure --with-windows
$ cp config_ming.h config.h
(use config.h from porting described above)
$ make clean
$ make 2> make.err
@end example
@command{./configure} does not work correctly: It finds headers and libs
which are not really available in the internal port of MINGW32 (flag
@option{-mno-cygwin}), but are useful only in CYGWIN. Therefore the resulting
@file{config.h} is not o.k.. So finally I used @file{config.h} from my port
with external MINGW32 as described above. This was however the only change
necessary to compile succesfully with internal MINGW32.
ToDo: find appropriate presets for variables in @file{configure.in} or
rewrite the autotool tests for headers and libs (search exclusively in
mingw directories and not in the standard directories). Maybe this is
already described in a proper mailing list.
Regards
Holger Vogt
@end quotation
As of Rework-16 the Windows port is integrated as part of ngspice. It can be
build under @url{http://www.cygwin.com/,,Cygwin} or @url{http://www.mingw.org/,,MinGW}.
The situation of NGSPICE ports is evolving continually, the one above are the
sjborley
21 years ago