compiling in cygwin

[Hannes Krueger]

Hello out there,

maybe somebody could also be interested in compiling minicom on cygwin.
I needed to do this, because we've attached (usb2.0) a nice external 
RAID-Controller to a machine, which has to run WinXP (controlling some 
scientific intrument). For easy ssh access I've installed cygwin, I like to 
use this (via ssh) to check the status of the RAID, which is attached to the 
same machine on a serial line.

I took minicom 2.1 source, which needed some small modifications:

1.) there is a directory called "aux" in the sources, this name is not allowed 
on a Win system (some special DOS devicename). So I renamed this to "axx", 
prior to unpacking the archive on the cygwin machine. Therefore some small 
modifications needed for the ./configure file (search for "aux").

2.) compiling was straight forward then, but the linking failed. Linking was 
possible by using the following call in "src" (cygncurses... added)

gcc  -g -O2 -I../intl -Wall -W  -o minicom  minicom.o vt100.o config.o \
help.o  updown.o util.o dial.o window.o wkeys.o ipc.o windiv.o \ 
sysdep1.o sysdep1_s.o sysdep2.o rwconf.o main.o file.o getsdir.o \
wildmat.o common.o  /bin/cygncurses5.dll ../intl/libintl.a  ../lib/libport.a \ 
-ltermcap

From now on, I'm able to login from anywhere onto this WinXP machine  using 
cygwin-ssh-server, and I can check the RAID throught serial line using 
minicom :-)

best regards
hannes