winxp mingw build abiword and bonecho

Visted my brother in law and used his dsl line to download several large files.

abiword-2.4.2.tar.gz gunzipped and untared it is 106MB somewhat of a strange build in that you only use make, which the notes refer to as a diving make? Anyway only a couple of problems were encountered.

01. had to copy zlib.h and zconf.h to libpng from zlib

02. had to comment out #define NOGDI from

\abiword-2.4.2\abi\src\af\util\win
\abiword-2.4.2\abi\src\af\xap\win

03. had to create a directory
\abiword-2.4.2\libs\zlib\lib containing libzdll.a
or more simply everything in the lib subdirectory from
zlib123-dll.zip

This last step was trialed until the link completed the error being cannot find -lzdll

Later I will try to edit the makefile but without configure, this seems the more practical solution


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Details in an earlier post but cygwin compiled the firefox bonecho source without incident. The binary chokes on some web pages and dumps but I was able to use nightly tester tools to install all my favorite extensions.
I have been using it every day and except for some bookmark problems and the same slow scrolling using the up and down scroll buttons, it is the same as the cygwin build for firefox 1.5