Syslinux - May 2010 - Syslinux doesn't compile on Mandriva Linux - fixed

Hi,

  I've tried to compile syslinux under mandriva, and the compilation always 
bails out because it hasn't created win32/syslinux.exe.  As far as I 
understand, the build will work fine on a Windows / mingw installation, but not 
Linux.

  I've modified my Makefile to remove the win32/syslinux.exe from the build,
and
it now builds OK.

  This happened on 3.3.6 and also on 4.0pre.

I've attached the patchfile which works for me - I've not verified it on
a win32
build, but it has been modified with win32 in mind.

Best Regards, Steve


--- Makefile.orig	2010-05-29 11:12:37.000000000 +0100
+++ Makefile	2010-05-29 11:17:16.000000000 +0100
@@ -19,6 +19,15 @@ include $(topdir)/MCONFIG
 -include $(topdir)/version.mk
 
 #
+# Build win32 applications for win32 platforms only
+#
+ifdef WIN32
+INSTALL_AUX_OPT = win32/syslinux.exe
+else
+INSTALL_AUX_OPT +endif
+
+#
 # The BTARGET refers to objects that are derived from ldlinux.asm; we
 # like to keep those uniform for debugging reasons; however, distributors
 # want to recompile the installers (ITARGET).
@@ -43,7 +52,7 @@ BOBJECTS = $(BTARGET) \
 	mbr/mbr_c.bin mbr/altmbr_c.bin mbr/gptmbr_c.bin \
 	mbr/mbr_f.bin mbr/altmbr_f.bin mbr/gptmbr_f.bin \
 	core/pxelinux.0 core/isolinux.bin core/isolinux-debug.bin \
-	gpxe/gpxelinux.0 dos/syslinux.com win32/syslinux.exe \
+	gpxe/gpxelinux.0 dos/syslinux.com $(INSTALL_AUX_OPT) \
 	dosutil/*.com dosutil/*.sys \
 	$(MODULES)
 
@@ -68,9 +77,8 @@ INSTALL_SBIN  = extlinux/extlinux
 # Things to install in /usr/lib/syslinux
 INSTALL_AUX   =	core/pxelinux.0 gpxe/gpxelinux.0 core/isolinux.bin \
 		core/isolinux-debug.bin \
-		dos/syslinux.com win32/syslinux.exe \
+		dos/syslinux.com $(INSTALL_AUX_OPT) \
 		mbr/*.bin $(MODULES)
-INSTALL_AUX_OPT = win32/syslinux.exe
 
 # These directories manage their own installables
 INSTALLSUBDIRS = com32 utils dosutil

Steve Clarke wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>  I've tried to compile syslinux under mandriva, and the compilation
always
> bails out because it hasn't created win32/syslinux.exe.  As far as I 
> understand, the build will work fine on a Windows / mingw installation, but
not
> Linux.
> 
>  I've modified my Makefile to remove the win32/syslinux.exe from the
build, and
> it now builds OK.
> 
>  This happened on 3.3.6 and also on 4.0pre.
> 
> I've attached the patchfile which works for me - I've not verified
it on a win32
> build, but it has been modified with win32 in mind.
> 
> Best Regards, Steve
Can you post the error? git master compiles fine here on openSUSE.

Sebastian

On 05/29/2010 05:32 AM, Steve Clarke wrote:
> Hi,
>
>    I've tried to compile syslinux under mandriva, and the compilation
always
> bails out because it hasn't created win32/syslinux.exe.  As far as I
> understand, the build will work fine on a Windows / mingw installation, but
not
> Linux.
>
That is just not true; in fact, Linux (Fedora in my case) is my 
development and compilation platform.  In order to build syslinux.exe, 
you need a mingw32 compiler installed, but the build is set up to handle 
this file not being there.

	-hpa