[PD] [PD-dev] Cross Compiling External for Windows - Problem

[Thomas Mayer]

On 10.08.2012 23:20, Patrice Colet wrote:
>  the mail reply says how MSVC is involved, 
> 
> "int _get_output_format( void ); is a standard MSVC function"
> 
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/571yb472(v=vs.80).aspx
>
> the problem is certainly because stdlib is different on windows, for
exemple vasprintf() is missing,
> you have to provide it into the sources, like we have done on
gridflow, or provide another function.
>
> gcc seems to try mscv's _get_output_format() for resolving it without
success...
>

It must be a linker problem: When I compile the test application for
json-c with MXE, then there is no problem at all, and I can run the
program in Windows correctly.


> Another thing, I've used s_list in an external that compiles fine with g++ linking and declspec embedding...
> 
> 
> can you post all the compile process, and what is your linker?

My complete compile process is this:
1. Get MXE development version (https://github.com/mxe/mxe), build the
cross compilation tools and necessary libraries (make curl json-c
libiberty pthreads).
1a. (optional) Run built test application in Windows to ensure correct
build process
2. Get PuREST JSON (https://github.com/residuum/PuRestJson). The
Makefile uses the template 1.0.12.
NB: The Makefile in the repository is not the same one as on my local
machine, I will push it once cross compilation is possible.
3. Run make UNAME=MINGW CROSS=i686-pc-mingw32 CROSS_PATH=/opt/mxe/usr
PD_PATH=/home/thomas/src/Pd-0.42.5-extended/pd-win

Output: i686-pc-mingw32-gcc
-I"/home/thomas/src/Pd-0.42.5-extended/pd-win/include/pd" -std=c99 -DPD
-DVERSION='"0.7.1"' -mms-bitfields
-I"/home/thomas/src/Pd-0.42.5-extended/pd-win/src" -mthreads -Wall -W -g
-I/opt/mxe/usr/i686-pc-mingw32/include -O3 -funroll-loops
-fomit-frame-pointer -o "libpurest_json.o" -c "libpurest_json.c"
i686-pc-mingw32-gcc -shared -o libpurest_json.dll libpurest_json.o
-lcurl -ljson -L"/home/thomas/src/Pd-0.42.5-extended/pd-win/src"
-L"/home/thomas/src/Pd-0.42.5-extended/pd-win/bin"
-L"/home/thomas/src/Pd-0.42.5-extended/pd-win/obj" -lpd -lwsock32
-lkernel32 -luser32 -lgdi32 -liberty -lpthread
libpurest_json.o: In function `output_json':
/home/thomas/src/pd/my-objects/purest_json/libpurest_json.c:145:
undefined reference to `s_list'
/opt/mxe/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-mingw32/4.7.1/../../../../i686-pc-mingw32/lib/libjson.a(printbuf.o):
In function `vasprintf':
/opt/mxe/tmp-json-c/json-c-0.10/printbuf.c:130: undefined reference to
`_vscprintf'
/opt/mxe/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-mingw32/4.7.1/../../../../i686-pc-mingw32/lib/libmingwex.a(pformat.o):pformat.c:(.text+0x1732):
undefined reference to `_get_output_format'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [libpurest_json.dll] Fehler 2

I am not sure, how to get information about the linker used, and how to
set it in the Makefile. That was part of the original question,
apparently setting LD in the Makefile is not enough (see
https://gist.github.com/3307768).

Thanks for your help,
Thomas


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