Re: Building on MinGW using MXE-built dependencies [WAS: Re: mxe-installer try 2]

[Philip Nienhuis]

Philip Nienhuis wrote:
> John W. Eaton wrote:
> > On 06/11/2013 04:18 PM, Philip Nienhuis wrote:
> >
> > > On my list is finding out how to build using mxe-octave on Windows 7
> > > 64-bit,
> >
> > I'm starting to try the same thing now, so maybe we can help each other
> > and make it work.
> >
> > > as that runs on my fastest dev box (the build I referred to runs
> > > on an older Core Duo desktop).
> > > I consistently get configure messages that "gcc cannot build
> > > executables", with the log mentioning that ld cannot find a.o.,
> > > -ladvapi32. Now, advapi32.dll and friends are in the C:\Windows\system32
> > > dir which *is* in the MinGW PATH as /c/windows/system32. I've
> > > experimented with LDFLAGS and other tricks to no avail :-) Google didn't
> > > turn up a solution yet.
> > > I think this is a very MinGW-specific issue.
> >
> > This is with the 64-bit mingw and tools? Why is it trying to link with
> > advapi32? If that is normal, then where is that dependency coming from?
> > Is it explicitly listed in some Makefiles?
>
> Turns out a "mingw-get mingw32-gcc" fixed it. That installed a load of
> dependencies I apparently overlooked and skipped. mxe-octave just
> succeeded building bison, now it is building cmake (on Win7 64-bit).
> Tomorrow morning I'll check the results.

The results came faster than I hoped:

address@hidden ~/mxe-octave
$ ./mk-dist --jobs 1
deleting previous dist directory...
building octave and dependencies...
[check requirements]
[build]    build-bison
[done]     build-bison
[download] build-cmake
[build]    build-cmake
[done]     build-cmake
[download] build-flex
[build]    build-flex

(## Why does mxe-octave say building "[build]  build-bison" rather than 
"[build] bison" etc?)

Failed to build package build-flex!
------------------------------------------------------------
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory 
`/home/Philip/mxe-octave/tmp-build-flex/flex-2.5.37.build'
make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory 
`/home/Philip/mxe-octave/tmp-build-flex/flex-2.5.37.build'
make[1]: *** [build-only-build-flex] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/Philip/mxe-octave'


...and the log says:

:
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. 
-I/home/Philip/mxe-octave/tmp-build-flex/flex-2.5.37 
-DLOCALEDIR=\"/home/Philip/mxe-octave/usr/share/locale\" 
-I/home/Philip/mxe-octave/tmp-build-flex/flex-2.5.37/intl   -g -O2 -MT 
ccl.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/ccl.Tpo -c -o ccl.o 
/home/Philip/mxe-octave/tmp-build-flex/flex-2.5.37/ccl.c
In file included from 
C:/MinGW/msys/1.0/home/Philip/mxe-octave/tmp-build-flex/flex-2.5.37/ccl.c:34:0:
C:/MinGW/msys/1.0/home/Philip/mxe-octave/tmp-build-flex/flex-2.5.37/flexdef.h:1195:1: 
fout: unknown type name ‘regex_t’
C:/MinGW/msys/1.0/home/Philip/mxe-octave/tmp-build-flex/flex-2.5.37/flexdef.h:1197:19: 
fout: unknown type name ‘regex_t’
C:/MinGW/msys/1.0/home/Philip/mxe-octave/tmp-build-flex/flex-2.5.37/flexdef.h:1198:23: 
fout: unknown type name ‘regmatch_t’
C:/MinGW/msys/1.0/home/Philip/mxe-octave/tmp-build-flex/flex-2.5.37/flexdef.h:1199:23: 
fout: unknown type name ‘regmatch_t’
C:/MinGW/msys/1.0/home/Philip/mxe-octave/tmp-build-flex/flex-2.5.37/flexdef.h:1200:19: 
fout: unknown type name ‘regmatch_t’
C:/MinGW/msys/1.0/home/Philip/mxe-octave/tmp-build-flex/flex-2.5.37/flexdef.h:1201:22: 
fout: unknown type name ‘regmatch_t’
C:/MinGW/msys/1.0/home/Philip/mxe-octave/tmp-build-flex/flex-2.5.37/flexdef.h:1202:22: 
fout: unknown type name ‘regmatch_t’

I do have msys-regex installed.