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Date:	Fri, 21 Jun 2002 01:43:33 -0400
From:	Charles Wilson <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
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Subject:	Re: Building a MinGW build of aspell without much luck :(
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Christopher Faylor wrote:


>>BTW, I tot I might share how I got pass my problem. I've checked and
>>found the definition of opendir, readdir and closedir to exist in the
>>lib libmingwex.a which was never included by the configure process.
>>Hence the fix is to edit the gcc's specs file to include this lib
>>whenever the -mno-cygwin switch is given. Is this considered a bug?
>>
> 
> That would be a question for the mingw mailing list, I think.  I don't
> know if they intended for libmingwex to be included by default or not.
> Since it is new and gcc is old, it obviously isn't going to be included.


As Earnie mentioned in the announcement for the most recent update of 
the mingw-runtime and w32api packages for cygwin, libmingwex is a new 
addition.

> To use these functions, you will need to explicitly add -lmingwex to 
> your command line. In future releases of GCC, libmingwex.a will 
> become a system lib added automatically by specs. 


So, it's not a bug that current gcc's spec file doesn't have it; it's a 
new feature of mingw-runtime that is not yet supported by our gcc.

--Chuck





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