Trouble building vanilla robotgo in and for WIndows 10

[janpfeifer]

Versions

• Robotgo version (or commit ref):
• Go version: 1.13.1
• Gcc version: Cygwin 7.40-1, and TDM Gcc 5.1
• Operating system and bit: Windows 10

Description

I hadn't yet compiled any CGO for windows, so I first tried cygwin, and it fails while compiling something in C:

   implicit declaration of function ‘_beginthread’; did you mean ‘OpenThread’

Following suggestion in stackoverlow I attempted using TDM GCC instead. After a reboot and having to install git for windows (as opposed of the cygwin), I then got the error:

    go build  github.com/go-vgo/robotgo
   # github.com/go-vgo/robotgo
   In file included from ./bitmap/../base/str_io_c.h:2:0,
                    from ./bitmap/goBitmap.h:17,
                    from C:\Users\pfeif\go\src\github.com\go-vgo\robotgo\robotgo.go:45:
   ./bitmap/../base/zlib_util_c.h:2:18: fatal error: zlib.h: No such file or directory
   compilation terminated.

I'm not sure what to try next, I didn't find any easy way to install zlib with TDM gcc.

Any ideas/pointers ? What would be a "standard" setup to use RobotGo in windows ?

Many thanks!

[vcaesar]

Closed because of duplicates, #100. All code tests and C dependencies use MinGw-64, TDM-GCC has not been tested.