[distcc] Re: Compiling DistCC under MinGW with MSYS

[Duncan McQueen]

Let me ask a follow-up - I may try coordinating some effort to get
this to work in MinGW.  What would be the steps you recommend to get
this to work?

Thanks,

Duncan

On 1/6/07, Duncan McQueen <dwmcqueen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Has anyone here successfully compiled distcc with MinGW?  When I run
> the configure script under MSYS, I get the following error:
>
> checking for socklen_t... no
> checking for socklen_t equivalent... configure: error: Cannot find a
> type to use          in place of socklen_t
>
> From what I understand, MinGW implements socklen_t but the WinSock
> library needs to be linked in.  Has anyone patched the necessary files
> to make this happen?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Duncan
>