Re: [Eliot-dev] [Windows build] Compilation failure

[Olivier Teuliere]

Hello Julien,

On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 14:47, Julien Catalano
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to build eliot (latest CVS snapshot) for Windows using the 
> INSTALL instructions. Unfortunately it fails on several steps.
>
> In reply to this email is a series of patches to fix the problems I 
> encountered. The patches are documented there, and target the extras/contrib 
> build. But this is not suffissant.

I have applied both patches. Thanks!

> First, the gettext patch for win32 is not available on koders.com (or, the 
> page redirect infinitely), but I doubt this is the problem.

Indeed, this step is not useful anymore.

> When building eliot itself, it fails when linking the object files to produce
> eliottxt.exe. Below is the full linker log. It seems that there are some 
> issues with libarabica, but I can't say more.
>
> Could anyone help?
>
> i586-mingw32msvc-g++  -g -O2 -Wall -Wextra  
> -L/home/julien/test/eliot/extras/contrib/inst/lib -o eliottxt.exe game_io.o 
> eliottxt.o ../game/libgame.a ../dic/libdic.a ../intl/libintl.a 
> /home/julien/test/eliot/extras/contrib/inst/lib/libiconv.a 
> -L/home/julien/test/eliot/extras/contrib/inst/lib -lconfig++   
> -L/home/julien/test/eliot/extras/contrib/inst/lib -larabica   -lws2_32
> ../game/libgame.a(xml_reader.o):/home/julien/test/eliot/extras/contrib/inst/include/arabica/SAX/wrappers/saxexpat.hpp:585:
>  undefined reference to `_XML_GetCurrentColumnNumber'
> ../game/libgame.a(xml_reader.o):/home/julien/test/eliot/extras/contrib/inst/include/arabica/SAX/wrappers/saxexpat.hpp:579:
>  undefined reference to `_XML_GetCurrentLineNumber'
> ../game/libgame.a(xml_reader.o):/home/julien/test/eliot/extras/contrib/inst/include/arabica/SAX/wrappers/saxexpat.hpp:380:
>  undefined reference to `_XML_SetUserData'
> ../game/libgame.a(xml_reader.o):/home/julien/test/eliot/extras/contrib/inst/include/arabica/SAX/wrappers/saxexpat.hpp:381:
>  undefined reference to `_XML_SetCharacterDataHandler'
> ../game/libgame.a(xml_reader.o):/home/julien/test/eliot/extras/contrib/inst/include/arabica/SAX/wrappers/saxexpat.hpp:382:
>  undefined reference to `_XML_SetElementHandler'
> ../game/libgame.a(xml_reader.o):/home/julien/test/eliot/extras/contrib/inst/include/arabica/SAX/wrappers/saxexpat.hpp:383:
>  undefined reference to `_XML_SetElementDeclHandler'
> ../game/libgame.a(xml_reader.o):/home/julien/test/eliot/extras/contrib/inst/include/arabica/SAX/wrappers/saxexpat.hpp:384:
>  undefined reference to `_XML_SetAttlistDeclHandler'
> ../game/libgame.a(xml_reader.o):/home/julien/test/eliot/extras/contrib/inst/include/arabica/SAX/wrappers/saxexpat.hpp:385:
>  undefined reference to `_XML_SetEntityDeclHandler'
> ../game/libgame.a(xml_reader.o):/home/julien/test/eliot/extras/contrib/inst/include/arabica/SAX/wrappers/saxexpat.hpp:386:
>  undefined reference to `_XML_SetNotationDeclHandler'
> ../game/libgame.a(xml_reader.o):/home/julien/test/eliot/extras/contrib/inst/include/arabica/SAX/wrappers/saxexpat.hpp:387:
>  undefined reference to `_XML_SetDoctypeDeclHandler'
> ../game/libgame.a(xml_reader.o):/home/julien/test/eliot/extras/contrib/inst/include/arabica/SAX/wrappers/saxexpat.hpp:388:
>  undefined reference to `_XML_SetCdataSectionHandler'
> ../game/libgame.a(xml_reader.o):/home/julien/test/eliot/extras/contrib/inst/include/arabica/SAX/wrappers/saxexpat.hpp:389:
>  undefined reference to `_XML_SetCommentHandler'
> ../game/libgame.a(xml_reader.o):/home/julien/test/eliot/extras/contrib/inst/include/arabica/SAX/wrappers/saxexpat.hpp:390:
>  undefined reference to `_XML_SetExternalEntityRefHandler'
> ../game/libgame.a(xml_reader.o):/home/julien/test/eliot/extras/contrib/inst/include/arabica/SAX/wrappers/saxexpat.hpp:391:
>  undefined reference to `_XML_SetProcessingInstructionHandler'
> ../game/libgame.a(xml_reader.o): In function `~expat_wrapper':
> /home/julien/test/eliot/extras/contrib/inst/include/arabica/SAX/wrappers/saxexpat.hpp:374:
>  undefined reference to `_XML_ParserFree'
> ../game/libgame.a(xml_reader.o): In function `expat_wrapper':
> /home/julien/test/eliot/extras/contrib/inst/include/arabica/SAX/wrappers/saxexpat.hpp:367:
>  undefined reference to `_XML_ParserCreate'
> ../game/libgame.a(xml_reader.o):/home/julien/test/eliot/extras/contrib/inst/include/arabica/SAX/wrappers/saxexpat.hpp:607:
>  undefined reference to `_XML_GetCurrentColumnNumber'
> ../game/libgame.a(xml_reader.o):/home/julien/test/eliot/extras/contrib/inst/include/arabica/SAX/wrappers/saxexpat.hpp:607:
>  undefined reference to `_XML_GetCurrentLineNumber'
> ../game/libgame.a(xml_reader.o):/home/julien/test/eliot/extras/contrib/inst/include/arabica/SAX/wrappers/saxexpat.hpp:498:
>  undefined reference to `_XML_GetBuffer'
> ../game/libgame.a(xml_reader.o):/home/julien/test/eliot/extras/contrib/inst/include/arabica/SAX/wrappers/saxexpat.hpp:506:
>  undefined reference to `_XML_ParseBuffer'
> ../game/libgame.a(xml_reader.o):/home/julien/test/eliot/extras/contrib/inst/include/arabica/SAX/wrappers/saxexpat.hpp:509:
>  undefined reference to `_XML_GetErrorCode'
> ../game/libgame.a(xml_reader.o):/home/julien/test/eliot/extras/contrib/inst/include/arabica/SAX/wrappers/saxexpat.hpp:509:
>  undefined reference to `_XML_ErrorString'
> ../game/libgame.a(xml_reader.o):/home/julien/test/eliot/extras/contrib/inst/include/arabica/SAX/wrappers/saxexpat.hpp:1057:
>  undefined reference to `_XML_ExternalEntityParserCreate'
> ../game/libgame.a(xml_reader.o):/home/julien/test/eliot/extras/contrib/inst/include/arabica/SAX/wrappers/saxexpat.hpp:1061:
>  undefined reference to `_XML_ParserFree'
> ../game/libgame.a(xml_reader.o):/home/julien/test/eliot/extras/contrib/inst/include/arabica/SAX/wrappers/saxexpat.hpp:473:
>  undefined reference to `_XML_SetParamEntityParsing'
> ../game/libgame.a(xml_reader.o):/home/julien/test/eliot/extras/contrib/inst/include/arabica/SAX/wrappers/saxexpat.hpp:482:
>  undefined reference to `_XML_ParserReset'
> ../game/libgame.a(xml_reader.o): In function `~expat_wrapper':
> /home/julien/test/eliot/extras/contrib/inst/include/arabica/SAX/wrappers/saxexpat.hpp:374:
>  undefined reference to `_XML_ParserFree'
> /home/julien/test/eliot/extras/contrib/inst/include/arabica/SAX/wrappers/saxexpat.hpp:374:
>  undefined reference to `_XML_ParserFree'
> collect2: ld a retourné 1 code d'état d'exécution
> make[2]: *** [eliottxt.exe] Erreur 1
> make[2]: quittant le répertoire « /home/julien/test/eliot/utils »
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Erreur 1
> make[1]: quittant le répertoire « /home/julien/test/eliot »
> make: *** [all] Erreur 2
>
> Thanks, and keep up the good work with eliot!

One configure parameter was missing in the sample command-line:
 --with-expat=${INST}.
I have updated the INSTALL file accordingly, sorry for the
inconvenience...

Regards,
-- 
Olivier