Catalogue of HOWTOs on MinGW.org
Here you will find a list of available HOWTO articles, relating to the configuration, use and development of MinGW and MSYS. Additions to this catalogue are always welcome; if you can add an appropriate HOWTO article, please do so.
For an alternative source of MinGW related information, please also refer to the FAQ.
MinGW HOWTOs
Installing MinGW on Win32
HOWTO Install the MinGW (GCC) Compiler Suite
Compiling
HOWTO Compile Programs with MinGW -- A Guide for New Users
HOWTO Compile Programs with GCJ
Using External Libraries with MinGW
HOWTO Specify Header or Include File Search Paths
HOWTO Specify the Location of External Libraries for Use by GCC
HOWTO Customise Search Paths, Using the GCC Specs File
HOWTO Use Mark J. Kilgard's OpenGL Utility Toolkit (GLUT) with MinGW
MinGW and Other Platforms
HOWTO Build MinGW as a Cross Compiler for Win32 Development on GNU Linux
HOWTO Build a MinGW-Win32 Hosted Cross Compiler for Other Platforms
Contributing to MinGW Development
HOWTO Submit Bug Reports for MinGW Defects
HOWTO Submit Patches to Correct MinGW Bugs or to Add MinGW Features
MSYS HOWTOs
HOWTO Create an MSYS Build Environment
HOWTO Build an MSYS Application
Offsite HOWTO References
The following are not directly maintained on MinGW.org, but may be of interest to MinGW users. Since the reference documentation is not maintained by MinGW.org, don't blame us if any of these stop working; if you report it, we'll just delete the links, so you may as well do that yourself.
DEVELOPER QUESTION
Hi,
I'm not sure what the correct area/forum to post developer questions is but hopefully someone can point me in the right direction. If you can help me now, here's my problem....
My task is to take C code that was designed and previously compiled and run on the Solaris platform, and do what is necessary to make it compile and run on Windows. I'm using MinGW as my solution. I have it all set up and running but I ran into a few compile errors. The main error that I've been looking to resolve has to do with a "truncate" function that's being used to truncate a string. The error looks something like this:
This code previously worked on Solaris.
My question is, do you know what I should be using to perform String truncations in this version of the C compiler? Or is there a C library reference manual that I can view online to see what's available to me when using MinGW?
Thanks!!
Oliver
Re: DEVELOPER QUESTION
You really should use the mailing list to ask such questions.
Regarding online documentation resources, then the only one that is strictly relevant is MSDN; for a standard MinGW installation, the Visual Studio 6.0 Runtime Library Reference is probably the most appropriate:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa249835(VS.60).aspx
(later versions are also supported, but VS-6.0 is the best fit for the standard MSVCRT.DLL, which is used as default by MinGW).
You may also wish to refer to the Windows API reference material, (but do watch out for version compatibility pitfalls):
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa139672.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa383749%28VS.85%29.aspx