llvm dev - May 2008 - [LLVMdev] Possibly Vista-related Windows/MinGW Compilation Issues

Hello, Jonathan
> I thought I'd messed up something related to the linker,
> but I couldn't explain why XP would work using the same steps.
The only thing comes to my mind seeing this: perl from msysDTK works
differently (somehow) on Vista, thus llvm-config is broken which leads
to missed libraries, broken dependencies, etc. 

I'd suggest you to compare stuff on different systems.

-- 
With best regards, Anton Korobeynikov.

Faculty of Mathematics & Mechanics, Saint Petersburg State University.

Anton Korobeynikov wrote:
> Hello, Jonathan
>
>   
>> I thought I'd messed up something related to the linker,
>> but I couldn't explain why XP would work using the same steps.
>>     
> The only thing comes to my mind seeing this: perl from msysDTK works
> differently (somehow) on Vista, thus llvm-config is broken which leads
> to missed libraries, broken dependencies, etc. \
>   
I'm also on Vista (although with a different Perl).  The error pattern 
looks half-familiar.

Does the attached patch (MingW32.Vista.patch) work for you, Jonathan?

[Note: I don't think this is clean enough to apply to trunk.  I can 
write a revised one for trunk on request, although it'll probably come 
no earlier than June 1st.

llvm-config.in.in
* abspath is standard only with Perl 5.6 and higher.  The mainline idiom 
also works with Perl 5.005.  A proper patch for trunk would support both.
* I wasn't able to get the pwd autodetection working at all, so it is 
*cough* hard-coded *cough* for MingW32.  That shouldn't be in a patch 
for trunk at all.

GenLibDeps.pl
* A patch for trunk would try the mainline implementation first, then 
failover to using Perl to emulate the non-working pipe series.]

Kenneth Boyd


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I'm not sure exactly what I did differently this morning, but things seem to
be working.  In case anyone else has similar problems, here's what worked
for me:

* Install mingw from exe (just the g++ compiler)
* Install msys from exe 
* Install msysDTK from exe
* Copy the contents of the bison tarball to your c:\msys\1.0 (or wherever you
installed it)
* Repeat the last step for the flex, regex, and bash tarballs (it may ask to
copy over files, which I let it do)

I did at one point also installed strawberry perl after reading your hint about
perl being involed, but then uninstalled it.  Not sure if that had an effect.


Jonathan


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> From: asl at math.spbu.ru
> To: llvmdev at cs.uiuc.edu
> Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 08:36:14 +0400
> Subject: Re: [LLVMdev] Possibly Vista-related Windows/MinGW	Compilation
Issues
> 
> Hello, Jonathan
> 
>> I thought I'd messed up something related to the linker,
>> but I couldn't explain why XP would work using the same steps.
> The only thing comes to my mind seeing this: perl from msysDTK works
> differently (somehow) on Vista, thus llvm-config is broken which leads
> to missed libraries, broken dependencies, etc. 
> 
> I'd suggest you to compare stuff on different systems.
> 
> -- 
> With best regards, Anton Korobeynikov.
> 
> Faculty of Mathematics & Mechanics, Saint Petersburg State University.
> 
> 
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> Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 09:31:11 -0500
> From: zaimoni at zaimoni.com
> To: asl at math.spbu.ru; llvmdev at cs.uiuc.edu
> Subject: Re: [LLVMdev] Possibly Vista-related	Windows/MinGW	Compilation
Issues
> 
> I'm also on Vista (although with a different Perl).  The error pattern 
> looks half-familiar.
> 
> Does the attached patch (MingW32.Vista.patch) work for you, Jonathan?
I'll see if I can get it to break again to see if that also helps.  I
suspect my problem was due to having tried to manually installed mingw and msys
earlier in the day and not having a clean setup.  I removed the old directories
and reinstalled the mingw-related pieces this morning.  I thought I'd done a
reinstall last night before I sent the email, and it didn't work.  Still
scratching my head on what I did differently today so that I could help other
people avoid that issue in the future.


Jonathan
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> Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 09:31:11 -0500
> From: zaimoni at zaimoni.com
> To: asl at math.spbu.ru; llvmdev at cs.uiuc.edu
> Subject: Re: [LLVMdev] Possibly Vista-related	Windows/MinGW	Compilation
Issues
> 
> I'm also on Vista (although with a different Perl).  The error pattern 
> looks half-familiar.
> 
> Does the attached patch (MingW32.Vista.patch) work for you, Jonathan?
I'll see if I can get it to break again to see if that also helps.  I
suspect my problem was due to having tried to manually installed mingw and msys
earlier in the day and not having a clean setup.  I removed the old directories
and reinstalled the mingw-related pieces this morning.  I thought I'd done a
reinstall last night before I sent the email, and it didn't work.  Still
scratching my head on what I did differently today so that I could help other
people avoid that issue in the future.


Jonathan
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