Re: Compiling for the Win32 platform?

[Joe Flowers <flowers@social.chass.ncsu.edu>]

Can I get some more pointers on what I need to do regarding "Henry 
Spencer's regex", please?

"configure" within MSYS is failing at "configure: error: POSIX regex 
required."

Joe

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http://www.pell.portland.or.us/~orc/Code/bsd/bsd-current/00library/regex.h

checking sys/epoll.h usability... no
checking sys/epoll.h presence... no
checking for sys/epoll.h... no
checking declaration of sys_errlist... yes
checking for strerror... yes
checking for strerror_r... no
checking regex.h usability... no
checking regex.h presence... no
checking for regex.h... no
configure: error: POSIX regex.h required.

Joe@CUSTOM ~/openldap-2.3.35
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http://search.cpan.org/src/NI-S/Tk-804.027/pTk/mTk/tclGeneric/regex.h

checking regex.h usability... no
checking regex.h presence... yes
configure: WARNING: regex.h: present but cannot be compiled
configure: WARNING: regex.h:     check for missing prerequisite headers?
configure: WARNING: regex.h: see the Autoconf documentation
configure: WARNING: regex.h:     section "Present But Cannot Be Compiled"
configure: WARNING: regex.h: proceeding with the preprocessor's result
configure: WARNING: regex.h: in the future, the compiler will take 
precedence
configure: WARNING:     ## --------------------------------------------- ##
configure: WARNING:     ## Report this to <http://www.openldap.org/its/> ##
configure: WARNING:     ## --------------------------------------------- ##
checking for regex.h... yes
checking for library containing regfree... no
configure: error: POSIX regex required.

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Howard Chu wrote:
> Joe Flowers wrote:
> > Does anyone have at least an outline of what it takes to successfully 
> > compile OpenLDAP for the Win32 platform?
>
> Use MSYS, type "configure" and "make". No different from any other 
> platform.
>
> Of course you also need to build BerkeleyDB, Cyrus SASL, OpenSSL, and 
> a decent regex library first. I use Henry Spencer's regex.
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Joe
> >
> > .