This doesn't work.. error looks like this:

/usr/bin/install -c .libs/libmad.lai c:\source\vc\mixer\libmad/lib/libmad.la /usr/bin/install: cannot create regular file `c:sourcevcmixerlibmad/lib/libmad.la': No such file or directory

Those windows paths just aren't making it through everything without getting mangled.

How exactly would I install manually? Just copy libmad.a?

On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 14:22:02 -0800, Rob Leslie rob@mars.org wrote:

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On Nov 14, 2003, at 12:52 PM, Jedediah Smith wrote:

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Following steps were followed:

./configure --host=mingw32 --prefix==/cygdrive/c/source/vc/mixer/libmad

Configure step goes fine. The prefix is the dir I want to install to e.g. c:\source\vc\mixer\libmad which already exists.

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ranlib /cygdrive/c/source/vc/mixer/libmad/lib/libmad.a c:\mingw\bin\ranlib.exe: /cygdrive/c/source/vc/mixer/libmad/lib/libmad.a: No such file or directory

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It looks like ranlib is being passed the cygwin version of the path but it doesn't recognize it as it's part of mingw and only allows normal Windows paths. What shall I do about this?

I think both Cygwin and Mingw understand Windows paths, so try:

./configure --host=mingw32 --prefix='C:\source\vc\mixer\libmad'

If not you can just install the library by hand; libmad doesn't hardcode any paths from the configured prefix, so it's safe to omit.