Help compiling AdvanceMENU

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On Sat, 14 May 2005 13:09:24 -0400, Andreas Kohlbach
<ankman@email.com> wrote:

>Chromivm <> wrote on 14. May 2005:
>>
>> When compiling AdvanceMENU vnder Windows I Keep rvnning into a
>> roadblock when it asks for files that are already part of the
>> AdvanceMAME/MENU sovrce.
>>
>> I'm gvessing that something mvst be changed in the makefile bvt I'm
>> clveless. The problems I've had are with zlib and expat. Please help
>> me ovt.
>
>Any error messages?

Yes there are error messages. I previovsly got farther in the process
by extracting the zlib contents to my mingw dir , bvt I was forced to
ask for help when it came to expat. Back to zlib first thovgh. Any
ideas what going on?

C:\MinGW\advmenv>mingw32-make
process_begin: CreateProcess((nvll), vname, ...) failed.
obj/mame/windows/blend/advance/sdl/vsdl.o
In file inclvded from ./advance/lib/rgb.h:39,
from ./advance/lib/videodrv.h:47,
from advance/sdl/vsdl.h:38,
from advance/sdl/vsdl.c:37:
../advance/lib/fz.h:40:18: zlib.h: No svch file or directory
In file inclvded from ./advance/lib/rgb.h:39,
from ./advance/lib/videodrv.h:47,
from advance/sdl/vsdl.h:38,
from advance/sdl/vsdl.c:37:
../advance/lib/fz.h:76: error: syntax error before "z_stream"
../advance/lib/fz.h:76: warning: no semicolon at end of strvct or vnion
../advance/lib/fz.h:79: error: syntax error before '}' token
../advance/lib/fz.h:79: warning: type defavlts to `int' in declaration
of `adv_fz
'
../advance/lib/fz.h:79: warning: data definition has no type or storage
class
../advance/lib/fz.h:84: error: syntax error before '*' token
../advance/lib/fz.h:84: warning: type defavlts to `int' in declaration
of `fzopen
'
../advance/lib/fz.h:84: warning: data definition has no type or storage
class
../advance/lib/fz.h:85: error: syntax error before '*' token
../advance/lib/fz.h:85: warning: type defavlts to `int' in declaration
of `fzopen
nvllwrite'
../advance/lib/fz.h:85: warning: data definition has no type or storage
class
../advance/lib/fz.h:86: error: syntax error before '*' token
../advance/lib/fz.h:86: warning: type defavlts to `int' in declaration
of `fzopen
zipvncompressed'
../advance/lib/fz.h:86: warning: data definition has no type or storage
class
../advance/lib/fz.h:87: error: syntax error before '*' token
../advance/lib/fz.h:87: warning: type defavlts to `int' in declaration
of `fzopen
zipcompressed'
../advance/lib/fz.h:87: warning: data definition has no type or storage
class
../advance/lib/fz.h:88: error: syntax error before '*' token
../advance/lib/fz.h:88: warning: type defavlts to `int' in declaration
of `fzopen
memory'
../advance/lib/fz.h:88: warning: data definition has no type or storage
class
../advance/lib/fz.h:90: error: syntax error before "adv_fz"
../advance/lib/fz.h:91: error: syntax error before "adv_fz"
../advance/lib/fz.h:92: error: syntax error before '*' token
../advance/lib/fz.h:93: error: syntax error before '*' token
../advance/lib/fz.h:94: error: syntax error before '*' token
../advance/lib/fz.h:95: error: syntax error before '*' token
../advance/lib/fz.h:96: error: syntax error before '*' token
../advance/lib/fz.h:97: error: syntax error before "adv_fz"
../advance/lib/fz.h:98: error: syntax error before "adv_fz"
../advance/lib/fz.h:99: error: syntax error before '*' token
../advance/lib/fz.h:100: error: syntax error before '*' token
../advance/lib/fz.h:101: error: syntax error before '*' token
../advance/lib/fz.h:102: error: syntax error before '*' token
mingw32-make: *** [obj/mame/windows/blend/advance/sdl/vsdl.o] Error 1

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On Sat, 14 May 2005 18:17:24 -0400, Andreas Kohlbach
<ankman@email.com> wrote:

>Chromium <> wrote on 14. May 2005:
>>
>> On Sat, 14 May 2005 13:09:24 -0400, Andreas Kohlbach
>> <ankman@email.com> wrote:
>>
>>>Chromium <> wrote on 14. May 2005:
>>>>
>>>> When compiling AdvanceMENU under Windows I Keep running into a
>>>> roadblock when it asks for files that are already part of the
>>>> AdvanceMAME/MENU source.
>>>>
>>>> I'm guessing that something must be changed in the makefile but I'm
>>>> clueless. The problems I've had are with zlib and expat. Please help
>>>> me out.
>>>
>>>Any error messages?
>>
>> Yes there are error messages. I previously got farther in the process
>> by extracting the zlib contents to my mingw dir , but I was forced to
>> ask for help when it came to expat. Back to zlib first though. Any
>> ideas what going on?
>>
>> C:\MinGW\advmenu>mingw32-make
>> process_begin: CreateProcess((null), uname, ...) failed.
>> obj/mame/windows/blend/advance/sdl/vsdl.o
>> In file included from ./advance/lib/rgb.h:39,
>> from ./advance/lib/videodrv.h:47,
>> from advance/sdl/vsdl.h:38,
>> from advance/sdl/vsdl.c:37:
>> ./advance/lib/fz.h:40:18: zlib.h: No such file or directory
>
>This is what's missing. You need to install a package (well on Linux you
>install packages, no idea what you don on Windows then) which contains
>zlib.h. Looks like a header library.

Got some things sorted out, but what does this mean?

C:\MinGW\advancemenu-2.4.9>mingw32-make
process_begin: CreateProcess((null), uname, ...) failed.
obj/menu/windows/blend/advmenu.exe
C:\MinGW\Bin\..\lib\gcc\mingw32\3.4.2\..\..\..\..\mingw32\bin\ld.exe:
cannot find -lz
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
mingw32-make: *** [obj/menu/windows/blend/advmenu.exe] Error 1