AltME: R3 Building and Porting

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Maxim
yep.
there doesnt' seem to be that many errors, a part for this qsort issue.
Ladislav
I thought that rename is not needed?
Maxim
I'm currently looking into the qsort declaration within msvc... maybe I can use it directly instead.
Ladislav
What is the error you are getting?
And no, you certainly should not use the Microsoft-provided version, unless you want to keep the bugs it has
So, can you cite the error you are getting?
Maxim
ok then... it seems like its part of the stdlib tree, so not much I can do to not include it..  we should just give it a new name within our codebase then. I checked and its only used  4 times in the complete code base... not a big issue to fix.
bug is 'qsort' : inconsistent dll linkage
basically a redecleration
re-declaration
Maxim
I guess I'd just set    I_AM_QSORT_R   so that the ifdef in the code triggers and use qsort_r in the string! and block! code.
I guess  "qsort_r"   stands for qsort redefinition
ah no... its a different func spec... ignore that... I'll just change the qsort name to uc_qsort   (uc for university of california)
Ladislav
don't change the original source if possible, please
Maxim
well, this is part of porting code to different compilers and toolchains.  for example, the   static inline   hints are different in msvc  nothing I can do there.  I added an #ifdef  setup for that with comments explaining why.
I'm not playing inside the algorithm.  but if the name of the function causes errors in the compiler, I can't just wish it to go away.

Marco
I am trying to build R3 with MinGW on Win 7 without luck. Does anyone have already successfully done it?
I tried this:
https://github.com/hostilefork/r3-hf/wiki/Building-from-source-on-windows-with-mingw
but (apart from the fact that Rebol links are outdated) When doing make prep R3 crashes with error #1405.
If I use r3bazaar It can not find gcc, then if I copy MinGW/bin/gcc to MinGW/msys/bin the process stops with error: CreateProcess: not such file or directory AND THEN I GAVE UP !
Ladislav
"Does anyone have already successfully done it?" - I did it
(but I did not use HostileFork's instructions)
Marco
Could you please give me the instructions?

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