[Vm-dev] Building VM on windows: lining problem

[Esteban Lorenzano]

On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 11:01 AM, phil at highoctane.be <phil at highoctane.be>wrote:

>
> I've been moving forward with building the VM for Windows from the GitHub
> sources with MinGW.
>
> Now, to get the thing to compile, I had to replace the oft_t things by
> _oft_t, same for the 64 flavor.
>
> So, modifiying two header files, one being mingw.h where I put #define
> oft_t _oft_t at the end.
>
> This did the trick and I now have all plugins/dlls building fine:
>
> FT2Plugin.dll
> libcairo-2.dll
> libeay32.dll
> libfreetype-6.dll
> libfreetype.dll.a
> libFT2Plugin.dll.a
> libpixman-1-0.dll
> libpng-3.dll
> libSqueakFFIPrims.dll.a
> libSqueakSSL.dll.a
> SqueakFFIPrims.dll
> SqueakSSL.dll
> ssleay32.dll
> zlib1.dll
>
> are in results/
>
> Also, to get there, one has to create a vmVersionInfo.h file in
> platforms\Cross\vm with something in the REVISION_STRING
>
> #define REVISION_STRING "Pharo VM - Philippe Back from GitHub Sources
> 20131119"
>

are you following the instructions?
because this part at least is auto-generated, you should not doit by hand.
check in the generated build.sh... all the needed sequence is there.

and in any case, if you execute

build$ ../script/extract-commit-info.sh

it is also generated.

cheers,
Esteban


>
> I wonder why this isn't something automagically generated in the process
> as it seems that the CI build has something.
>
> The last step is getting Pharo.exe to link but this doesn't work:
>
> Linking C executable
> /C/MinGW/msys/1.0/home/Philippe/pharo-vm/results/Pharo.exe
> c:/mingw/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.8.1/../../../../mingw32/bin/ld.exe:
> cannot fin
> d -lcrtdll
> collect2.exe: error: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[2]: *** [C:/MinGW/msys/1.0/home/Philippe/pharo-vm/results/Pharo.exe]
> Error
> 1
> make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Pharo.dir/all] Error 2
> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
>
> Looks like a library path is wrong or else.
>
> Idea?
>
> Also, there are quite a number of warnings spit out during the compiling
> process all over the place, more than the Mac VM build I think.
>
> e.g.
>
> [ 92%] Building C object
> CMakeFiles/Pharo.dir/C_/MinGW/msys/1.0/home/Philippe/ph
> aro-vm/platforms/win32/vm/sqWin32Prefs.c.obj
> In file included from
> C:/MinGW/msys/1.0/home/Philippe/pharo-vm/platforms/Cross/v
> m/sq.h:193:0,
>                  from
> c:/MinGW/msys/1.0/home/Philippe/pharo-vm/platforms/win32/v
> m/sqWin32Prefs.c:20:
>
> C:/MinGW/msys/1.0/home/Philippe/pharo-vm/platforms/win32/vm/sqPlatformSpecific.h
> :52:0: warning: "VM_EXPORT" redefined [enabled by default]
>  #  define VM_EXPORT __declspec( dllexport )
>  ^
> In file included from
> c:/MinGW/msys/1.0/home/Philippe/pharo-vm/platforms/win32/v
> m/sqWin32Prefs.c:20:0:
> C:/MinGW/msys/1.0/home/Philippe/pharo-vm/platforms/Cross/vm/sq.h:48:0:
> note: thi
> s is the location of the previous definition
>  #define VM_EXPORT
>  ^
> [ 93%] Building C object
> CMakeFiles/Pharo.dir/C_/MinGW/msys/1.0/home/Philippe/ph
> aro-vm/platforms/win32/vm/sqWin32Utils.c.obj
> In file included from
> C:/MinGW/msys/1.0/home/Philippe/pharo-vm/platforms/Cross/v
> m/sq.h:193:0,
>                  from
> c:/MinGW/msys/1.0/home/Philippe/pharo-vm/platforms/win32/v
> m/sqWin32Utils.c:14:
>
> C:/MinGW/msys/1.0/home/Philippe/pharo-vm/platforms/win32/vm/sqPlatformSpecific.h
> :52:0: warning: "VM_EXPORT" redefined [enabled by default]
>  #  define VM_EXPORT __declspec( dllexport )
>  ^
> In file included from
> c:/MinGW/msys/1.0/home/Philippe/pharo-vm/platforms/win32/v
> m/sqWin32Utils.c:14:0:
> C:/MinGW/msys/1.0/home/Philippe/pharo-vm/platforms/Cross/vm/sq.h:48:0:
> note: thi
> s is the location of the previous definition
>  #define VM_EXPORT
>
> Phil
>
>
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