mingw installation

ChangeLog

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 2011-06-02  Holger Vogt
  * tests/hisim/makefile.am: no more test1.cir in EXTRA_DIST
+ * INSTALL, compile_min.sh: new instructions for mingw compilation
  
 2011-06-01  Dietmar Warning
  * devices/bjt/bjt.c: introduce ccc as an alias for the 

INSTALL

@@ -426,7 +426,10 @@ Most of the options now following are not well maintained, are not tested or eve
  if you have MSYS/MINGW installed properly. Unfortunately this is rather 
  tedious because you will need several enhancements to the standard install,
  especially if you want to include XSpice. Some links are given below which 
- describe the procedures.
+ describe the procedures. 
+ 
+     Installing from the tarball, e.g. ngspice-23.tar.gz, is now simple: After 
+ expanding, you may just run ./compile_min.sh from the ngspice-23 directory.
   
      The default installation location of ngspice is the Windows path
  C:\spice. The install path can be altered by passing --prefix=NEWPATH
@@ -440,8 +443,9 @@ Most of the options now following are not well maintained, are not tested or eve
  The procedure of compiling a distribution (for example, a tarball from
  the ngspice website), is as follows:
 
- $ cd ng-spice-rework
- $ ./configure --with-windows ...and other options
+ $ cd ngspice-23
+
+ $ ../configure --with-windows ...and other options
  $ make
  $ make install
 
@@ -452,7 +456,9 @@ Most of the options now following are not well maintained, are not tested or eve
   
  A fully featured ngspice on Windows may be obtained with the following commands:
  $ ./autogen.sh --adms
- $ ./configure --with-windows --enable-cider --disable-debug --enable-openmp --enable-xspice --enable-adms
+ $ mkdir release
+ $ cd release
+ $ ../configure --with-windows --enable-cider --disable-debug --enable-openmp --enable-xspice --enable-adms
  $ make install
  
  However, to compile code extracted from the CVS repository the procedure is
@@ -460,7 +466,9 @@ Most of the options now following are not well maintained, are not tested or eve
 
  $ cd ng-spice-rework
  $ ./autogen.sh
- $ ./configure --enable-maintainer-mode --with-windows ...and other options
+ $ mkdir release
+ $ cd release
+ $ ../configure --enable-maintainer-mode --with-windows ...and other options
  $ make
  $ make install
 
@@ -492,7 +500,7 @@ Most of the options now following are not well maintained, are not tested or eve
  CIDER and XSPICE are included, but the code models for XSPICE
  (*.cm) are not (yet) made. You may however use the code models
  created with MINGW (which in fact are dlls), as e.g. found in
- the ngspice binary distribution.
+ the ngspice binary distribution our made as described in 9.1.
   
  There is currently no installation procedure provided, you may
  however install the executable manually as described in the

compile_min.sh

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #!/bin/bash
-# ngspice build script for MINGW-w64
+# ngspice build script for MINGW-w64, release version, 32 or 64 bit
 # compile_min.sh
 
 #Procedure:
@@ -14,21 +14,42 @@
 # Options:
 # --adms and --enable-adms will install extra HICUM, EKV and MEXTRAM models via the 
 # adms interface.
+# Please see http://ngspice.sourceforge.net/admshowto.html for more info on adms.
 # CIDER, XSPICE, and OpenMP may be selected at will.
 # --disable-debug will give O2 optimization (versus O0 for debug) and removes all debugging info.
 
-./autogen.sh --adms
-if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then  echo "./autogen.sh failed"; exit 1 ; fi
 
-echo
 if test "$1" = "64"; then
-echo "configuring for 64 bit"
-echo
-./configure --with-windows --enable-xspice --enable-cider --enable-openmp --enable-adms --disable-debug  prefix="C:/Spice64" CFLAGS="-m64" LDFLAGS="-m64"
+   if [ ! -d "release64" ]; then
+      mkdir release64
+      if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then  echo "mkdir release64 failed"; exit 1 ; fi
+   fi   
 else
-echo "configuring for 32 bit"
+   if [ ! -d "release" ]; then
+      mkdir release
+      if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then  echo "mkdir release failed"; exit 1 ; fi
+   fi
+fi
+
+# If compiling sources from CVS, you may need to uncomment the following two lines:
+#./autogen.sh --adms
+#if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then  echo "./autogen.sh failed"; exit 1 ; fi
+
 echo
-./configure --with-windows --enable-xspice --enable-cider --enable-openmp --enable-adms --disable-debug CFLAGS="-m32" LDFLAGS="-m32"
+if test "$1" = "64"; then
+   cd release64
+   if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then  echo "cd release64 failed"; exit 1 ; fi
+  echo "configuring for 64 bit"
+  echo
+# You may add  --enable-adms to the following command for adding adms generated devices 
+  ../configure --with-windows --enable-xspice --enable-cider --enable-openmp --disable-debug  prefix="C:/Spice64" CFLAGS="-m64" LDFLAGS="-m64"
+else
+   cd release
+   if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then  echo "cd release failed"; exit 1 ; fi
+  echo "configuring for 32 bit"
+  echo
+# You may add  --enable-adms to the following command for adding adms generated devices 
+  ../configure --with-windows --enable-xspice --enable-cider --enable-openmp --disable-debug CFLAGS="-m32" LDFLAGS="-m32"
 fi
 if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then  echo "./configure failed"; exit 1 ; fi