Tremulous Forum

My friend wants me to compile the MGDev source and I was following this guide here:
http://projects.mercenariesguild.net/projects/mgdev/wiki/Getthesource

I'm trying to use the MSysGit method. So far I've installed MSysGit and I ran the command git clone git://git.mercenariesguild.net/mgdev.git mgdev

It downloaded the source to the folder MGDev, but when I run "make" in MSys it returns this error:
$ make
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/Owner/mgdev'

Building Tremulous in build/release-mingw32-x86:
 PLATFORM: mingw32
 ARCH: x86
 VERSION: 1.1.0
 COMPILE_PLATFORM: mingw32
 COMPILE_ARCH: x86
 CC: gcc

 CFLAGS:
   -MMD
   -Wall
   -fno-strict-aliasing
   -Wimplicit
   -Wstrict-prototypes
   -DUSE_ICON
   -DWINVER=0x501
   -DUSE_OPENAL
   -DUSE_OPENAL_DLOPEN
   -DUSE_CURL
   -DCURL_STATICLIB
   -m32
   -Isrc/SDL12/include
   -DUSE_MUMBLE
   -DUSE_VOIP
   -DFLOATING_POINT
   -DUSE_ALLOCA
   -Isrc/libspeex/include
   -DUSE_LOCAL_HEADERS
   -DPRODUCT_VERSION="1.1.0"
   -DNDEBUG
   -O3
   -march=i586
   -fno-omit-frame-pointer
   -ffast-math
   -falign-loops=2
   -funroll-loops
   -falign-jumps=2
   -falign-functions=2
   -fstrength-reduce

 LDFLAGS:
/bin/sh.exe: -c: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `;'
/bin/sh.exe: -c: line 1: `for i in ;  do  echo "    $i";  done'
make[1]: [targets] Error 2 (ignored)

 LIBS:
   -lws2_32
   -lwinmm

 Output:
   build/release-mingw32-x86/tremded.x86.exe
   build/release-mingw32-x86/base/cgamex86.dll
   build/release-mingw32-x86/base/gamex86.dll
   build/release-mingw32-x86/base/uix86.dll
   build/release-mingw32-x86/base/vm/cgame.qvm
   build/release-mingw32-x86/base/vm/game.qvm
   build/release-mingw32-x86/base/vm/ui.qvm

make[2]: Entering directory `/home/Owner/mgdev'
LD build/release-mingw32-x86/tremded.x86.exe
build/release-mingw32-x86/ded/net_ip.o(.text+0x335d):net_ip.c: undefined reference to `gai_strerror'
make[2]: *** [build/release-mingw32-x86/tremded.x86.exe] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/Owner/mgdev'
make[1]: *** [targets] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/Owner/mgdev'
make: *** [release] Error 2

I think it could just be a syntax error in the source, but then again I'm no expert.
Any suggestions on how to fix it? Thanks in advance.

gai_strerror should be #defined in ws2tcpip.h. It is a macro that expands to gai_strerrorA, when the linker still has the name gai_strerror then the compiler didn't include the header file correctly.
Unfortunately your log doesn't show the compiler step, only the linker step. I think the real error is in the compile step (try to delete the net_ip.o file and re-make - I guess there is a warning about the missing header file....)

Update your mingw runtime (see mingw download site)