Libartnet on Windows

This HOWTO outlines a method for compiling libartnet on Windows using MinGW.

you'll need msys, mingw and autotools installed.

         o autoconf 
         o automake
         o libtool
         

This is the biggest part of the job.

Download Libartnet

Sources (via git) - this will download latest libartnet version

git clone http://www.nomis52.net/git/libartnet

Build

edit libartnet/configure.in.

add AC_LIBTOOL_WIN32_DLL macro before AC_PROG_LIBTOOL

         o AC_PROG_CC 
         o AC_PROG_INSTALL
         o AC_PROG_LN_S
         o AC_PROG_MAKE_SET
         o AC_LIBTOOL_WIN32_DLL
         o AC_PROG_LIBTOOL

i did this with Bloc-notes because the way the file is recorded is important. you don't want \cr\lf end of lines, you just want \lf. otherwise, you'll get errors like

' is already registered with AC_CONFIG_FILES. ../../lib/autoconf/status.m4:305: AC_CONFIG_FILES is expanded from... configure.in:76: the top level