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lhmouse / nano-win

GNU nano text editor for Windows [WARNING: The master branch is constantly rebased and force-pushed so don't expect it to be steady!! -end WARNING]
https://files.lhmouse.com/nano-win/
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Version 4.8 binaries #11

Closed graphixillusion closed 4 years ago

graphixillusion commented 4 years ago

Hi there. The official website for downloading the prebuilt binaries is not update: last downloadable version is 4.6 while 4.8 is the latest one. Is there any eta for the new builds to show up? In the meantime i'm trying to build from the source by myself but i'm getting troubles. I followed the readme and installed everything: MSYS2, mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain (with everything) and base-devel. Then i download the zip source from release page, unzip it and follow the rest of the guide. When i'm in the nano-4.8 dir and launch ./configure i get the error bash: ./configure: No such file or directory. If i type autoconfig first then the ./configure command works but with errors. Now i'm trying the build_nano-win.sh as suggested in the Overview section of the readme and it's still running right now, i will report if something fails during the building but that script is not present in the zip of the 4.8 version, so i need help to build the last version from source. Thank you!

lhmouse commented 4 years ago

I may have access to update it today or tommorrow.

Unlike many other projects, GNU nano's repo does not contain generated autotools scripts. Therefore you have to generate the configure script yourself with ./autogen.sh, which performs a few other operations such as updating the gnulib submodule etc.

lhmouse commented 4 years ago

autoconf is not enough for generating all scripts required (you have to invoke aclocal, autoheader, autoconf and automake in a specific order, and you have to have knowledge of their relationship as well as some implementation details). The suggested way to do this is autoreconf -i. It should work well for most autotools-based projects, but not for GNU nano which has a Git submodule that has to be updated before the process.

graphixillusion commented 4 years ago

I see, so i will wait for the compiled binaries. Thank you for explanation

lhmouse commented 4 years ago

Update now https://files.lhmouse.com/nano-win/nano-win_8544_v4.8-4-g93fe54c6.7z.