[PD-dev] autotools on MinGW/MSYS

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Sep 15, 2010, at 6:02 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:

> On 2010-09-14 17:42, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>>
>>> i believe the patch i attached to the ticket to solve the problem  
>>> but
>>> have not been able to test on the very platform.
>>
>
> ok, i managed to log in, and my patch indeed solves the reported  
> problem.
>
> however, there are more issues, coming from parts of the new build
> system which i never touched.
> so i would like to discuss them, before i remove them:
>
>
> #1 when building with msys, the new build system includes pd-watchdog
> unfortunately, the watchdog uses signals and other quite linux  
> specific
> stuff. i don't know whether this can be ported, and whether this
> actually make sense.
>
> conclusion: i would exclude pd-watchdog from all w32 builds (if people
> need signals and whatnot, why don't they use an os that has signals  
> and
> whatnot)

I am pretty sure that Cygwin has signals, so pd-watchdog should just  
be removed for MinGW/Windows builds.

> #2 when building with msys, the compiler is forced to "g++".
> there are several problems with this:
> -- the user cannot chose the compiler themselves anymore, as the CC
> variable is silently ignored and reset to "g++"
> -- no check is done whether there actually is an executable named "g+ 
> +",
> it is just assumed. this kind of leads autoconf ad absurdum, as we can
> simply check for a valid c++ compiler if needed.
>
> -- most important however: compiling Pd with a c++ compiler can be a  
> bad
> idea! the Pd source uses C++ keywords (e.g. "template" is often used).
> throwing this code onto a c++ compiler leads to errors.
>
> conclusion: don't force autoconf to use g++ as the c-compiler, but
> rather let it choose the right compiler automagically
>
> if we need a c++-aware linker, then we should ask for a c++-aware  
> linker
> (rather than force a c++ compiler). afaik, automake can handle this  
> with
> a 1-liner.


Try building with the ASIO sources, which are C++ and need to be built  
with g++.  gcc won't link C++ code into a C binary from what I could  
tell.  So at least the final linking needs to be done with g++.  In  
makefile.mingw, all C is built with gcc and all C++ is built with g++,  
then the whole thing is linked with g++.

.hc


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