It's now or never.

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• The SAVE VISTA Facebook group has 25 members! Saving Vista is the best thing for the whole computer world! Tell your friends! Join today!

• NotN: Wolfram Alpha: A new kind of search engine.

It's interesting watching the social networks reform themselves on DreamWidth. I'm somewhat surprised that the first one I'm seeing reform en masse is the BOFHs. Many of whom I lured to LJ in the first place. Though the bi-polys are catching up.

redcountess is out seeing Coraline with Neil Gaiman doing a talk.

It's a lovely evening! I just took Freda down the shops.

One day we will have a toilet that doesn't have an infinitely deep gateway to the underworld in the floor.

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That's only the start of the sickness.

OMFG!

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This is both sick & wrong. I forbid you to do it! DO YOU HEAR ME?!?!

I hope you're goddamned ashamed of yourself!

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Wine on MinGW

MinGW is not a complete subsystem - it's the GNU tools ported to Windows, to build software that uses them natively. With more or less source patching. There is an optional shell, MSYS, which is derived from Cygwin.
The main problem here is X11 libs. The donation-paid version of Xming comes with Xlibs, but not the free version (see the build notes and you'll see what he wants a donation for). Compiling X11 in MinGW is fraught, as it really stresses what a POSIX implementation can supply.
Status
Current results are not great.

DavidGerard tried:

* install mingw
* install msys - http://www.mingw.org/wiki/msys
o MSYS 1.0.10 (.exe)
o MSYS DTK (.exe)
o MSYS Core 1.0.11 (tarball - you can untar it from inside MSYS)
* install from MSYS base system http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2435&package_id=24963
o bash
o coreutils
o m4
o autoconf, automake, libtool - these need updating from the DTK versions! Need autoconf 2.57 or higher for X11.
o bison
o flex
o regex
./configure --without-x --without-freetype runs, make depend bombs out with:
...
../../../tools/makedep -C. -S../../.. -T../../.. cred.c crypt.c crypt_lmhash.c crypt_md4.c crypt_md5.c crypt_sha.c lsa.c registry.c security.c service.c
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/fun/wine-1.1.11/dlls/advapi32/tests'
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/fun/wine-1.1.11/dlls/advapi32/tests'
Makefile:442: *** unterminated variable reference. Stop.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/fun/wine-1.1.11/dlls/advapi32/tests'
make[1]: *** [advapi32/tests/__depend__] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/fun/wine-1.1.11/dlls'
make: *** [dlls/__depend__] Error 2
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