How to build libpng in the MSYS?

How to build libpng in the MSYS?

Where to download?

 

libpng-1.2.39rc01.tar.bz2

You can find more version in http://sourceforge.net/projects/libpng/files/

 

How to extract it?

 

$ tar xvjf ./ libpng-1.2.39rc01.tar.bz2

 

How to build and install it?

 

$ . ./autogen.sh $ ./configure --prefix=/mingw --disable-shared --enable-static && make && make install

 

[Summarization]

As ‘alias’ configuration can not be inherited in sub-shell, I use ‘.’ command  to execute it. The real reason please refer to How to build giflib in the MSYS?