[Scummvm-devel] Disabling windows console on buildbot builds (Was: consoles, warnings, errors and so forth)

[Max Horn]

Am 01.06.2011 um 17:56 schrieb Johannes Schickel:

>> [I'll reply to the rest later, let me just quickly address the urgent
>> missing console bit right away]
>> 
>> Am 01.06.2011 um 15:11 schrieb A. Milburn:
>> 
>> [...]
>> 
>>> On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 02:42:50PM +0200, Max Horn wrote:
>>>> If somebody here can tell me why exactly the console is off and how to
>>>> re-enable it, please let me know. Even better, just implement the fix.
>>> 
>>> LordHoto's comment on the forum was "Because the sdl-config script of the
>>> prebuilt SDL development files for MinGW does pass -mwindows to the
>>> linker".
>> 
>> I see. OK, so two solutions come to mind:
>> 
>> 1) Modify the sdl-config script on buildbot to not add -mwindows
>> 
>> 2) Modify our configure script to filter out -mwindows.
>> 
>> I tend towards option 1 right now, simply because it is the quickest and
>> easiest to implement, and because I am not sure if some people  may not
>> *want* to use -mwindows right now, and we should not force them to abandon
>> it. But I am open to either approach, or a third one, if somebody can
>> point one out.
>> 
>> It would be good to implement this before the next set of daily builds is
>> made.
>> 
> 
> I'm also all for 1, but someone with write access on buildbot has to do it...

Done for both mingw 32 and 64. It should take effect on the next configure run (which for daily builds is always enforced anyway).


Cheers,
Max