Compile-Windows-Authentication

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Steps for compiling a Freeciv server with Authentication support on Windows:

1. Install Cygwin and necessary packages for compilation (autoconf, automake)
2. Install minimal MinGW (MinGW-5.1.3.exe [1])
3. Install MinGW Utils (mingw-utils-0.3.tar.gz [2])
4. Configure path to use MinGW for compilation
5. Install gettext (gettext-0.14.5.zip [3] and gettext-dev-0.14.5.zip [4])
6. Apply gettext-S2_0-S2_1-2007-08-19.diff [5]
7. Install libiconv (libiconv-1.9.1.bin.woe32.zip [6])
8. Install mysqllib
   1. Download mysql-noinstall-5.0.45-win32.zip [7]
   2. Copy contents of /include to MinGW/include/mysql
   3. Copy contents of /lib/opt to a convenient directory
   4. Change to convenient directory in Cygwin
   5. Run reimp -d libmysql.lib
   6. Edit LIBMYSQL.def to add "mysql_query" just before "mysql_query@8"
   7. Run dlltool --input-def LIBMYSQL.def --dllname libmysql.dll --output-lib libmysqlclient.a --kill-at
   8. Copy libmysqlclient.a to MinGW/lib
   9. Edit server/auth.c to add "#include <winsock.h>" just before "#include <mysql/mysql.h>"
9. Install zlib (zlib-1.2.3-lib.zip [8])
10. Run ./autogen.sh --enable-client=no --host=mingw32 CPPFLAGS=-mno-cygwin --enable-auth --enable-debug=no --without-readline
11. Run make
12. Take newly created server/civserver.exe and replace the one in the official distrubtion