Building exiv2 on Windows Using MinGW¶

*Last revision on which this method was tested: r3288
*Operating Systems on which this method was tested: Windows7 Professional and Home-Premium 64bit

1. Download MinGW
2. While selecting packages, make sure that the selected packages include the ones listed in the file MinGW_Required_Packages.txt
3. pkg-config is not part of standard MinGW installation. Assuming your MinGW installation is in C:\MinGW, download pkg-config and extract pkg-config.exe executable to C:\MinGW\bin. Then download glib and extract liglib-2.0-0.dll to C:\MinGW\bin. Open command prompt and type:
   

   cd C:/MinGW/bin
   cp libintl-8.dll intl.dll
   

4. For building exiv2, open command prompt and type:
   

   mkdir C:\gnu
   cd C:\gnu
   svn checkout svn://dev.exiv2.org/svn/trunk
   cd trunk
   set PATH=c:\MinGW\bin;c:\MinGW\msys\1.0\bin;C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\local\bin;
   bash
   PS1="\! \${PWD}> "; #Optional
   make config
   ./configure
   make
   make install
   export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
   make samples
   make tests
   

   1. Troubleshooting: If you get the error...
      

      /usr/bin/grep: /home/keith/staged/mingw32/lib/libiconv.la: No such file or directory
      /usr/bin/sed: can't read /home/keith/staged/mingw32/lib/libiconv.la: No such file or directory
      libtool: link: `/home/keith/staged/mingw32/lib/libiconv.la' is not a valid libtool archive
      

      
      ...then open command prompt and type:
      

      grep keith C:\MinGW\lib
      

      
      and remove all *.la files containing that word.
      Refer: keith-hard-link-bug