[CLN-list] Build CLN for 64 bi windows

[Jan Rheinländer]

Hi Richard,

I have successfully built CLN for Windows 64 bit using MSVC. It requires
some patches:

https://github.com/jrheinlaender/cln/tree/w64

Some instructions are here, it describes cross-compiling with MSVC from
Linux via Wine:

https://ooo-imath.sourceforge.io/wiki/index.php/Cross-compiling_for_Windows

Am 21.10.19 um 01:28 schrieb Richard Crozier via CLN-list:
> Dear list, Kaveh,
>
> I am trying to build CLN for windows 64 bit. I'm actually doing this
> by cross-compiling form linux using M Cross Environment (see
> www.mxe.cc for more information). When I try to build I get the
> folloinwg error:
>
>
> libtool: compile:  x86_64-w64-mingw32.static-g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.
> -I../autoconf -I../include -I../src -I../include -I../src -g -O2 -MT
> base/cl_as_exception.lo -MD -MP -MF base/.deps/cl_as_exception.Tpo -c
> base/cl_as_exception.cc -o base/cl_as_exception.o
> libtool: compile:  x86_64-w64-mingw32.static-g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.
> -I../autoconf -I../include -I../src -I../include -I../src -g -O2 -MT
> base/cl_condition.lo -MD -MP -MF base/.deps/cl_condition.Tpo -c
> base/cl_condition.cc -o base/cl_condition.o
> In file included from ./base/cl_sysdep.h:10:0,
>                  from base/cl_alloca.cc:4:
> ../include/cln/intparam.h:26:2: error: #error "Type char * does not
> fit into a long!!"
>  #error "Type char * does not fit into a long!!"
>
>
> I noticed in a thread from eight years ago that this same problem
> existed back then:
>
> https://www.ginac.de/pipermail/cln-list/2011-February/000607.html
>
> Is it a huge amount of work to fix this? Did Kaveh ever share the work
> he did on it?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Richard
>
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