1 Building Polipo on Windows -*-text-*-
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4 There are two distinct ports of Polipo to Windows -- a port using the
5 Cygwin emulation libraries, and an experimental native port using Mingw.
7 The Cygwin port is identical to the Unix binary. Build it just like
8 you would build under Unix -- just type ``make all'' in the directory
9 where you untarred the Polipo sources.
11 In order to build the native port, cd to the Polipo directory, and do
15 or, if you've got a regex library,
17 make EXTRA_DEFINES=-DHAVE_REGEX LDLIBS="-lwsock32 -lregex"
19 In order to cross-compile from a Unix system, you will probably need
20 to point make at the right compiler:
22 make CC=i586-mingw32msvc-gcc LDLIBS=-lwsock32
24 The native port currently attempts to access files in locations that
25 are typical for a Unix system; for example, it will attempt to read a
26 configuration file /etc/polipo/config on the current drive. You will
27 probably need to point it at your config file with an explicit ``-c''
28 command-line argument, and define at least the following configuration
35 Help with solving this issue would be very much appreciated.