[PD] Externals built with MSYS2/MinGW won't load

Christof Ressi christof.ressi at gmx.at
Thu Apr 7 21:26:26 CEST 2016


Thanks a lot, pd-lib-builder was exactly the tool I was looking for!!! It works perfectly and it's easy to use :-).


> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 07. April 2016 um 20:00 Uhr
> Von: "Fred Jan Kraan" <fjkraan at xs4all.nl>
> An: "Christof Ressi" <christof.ressi at gmx.at>
> Cc: pd-list at lists.iem.at
> Betreff: Re: Aw: Re: [PD] Externals built with MSYS2/MinGW won't load
>
> Hi Christof,
> 
> > Hi Jan,
> >
> > thanks for your thoughts!
> >
> > There are no spaces in my path. I'm doing everything within a folder called C:/pd_externals.
> > Also, I'm actually compiling for 32-bits, at least that's what I thought mingw32 is supposed to do...
> > It's only the overall MSYS2 release that is 64bit.
> >
> > Anyway, if there's anyone who has compiled simple externals for Windows using MINGW recently, please let me know and show me how you did it!
> >
> You might want to look on the MinGW compiler options as 
> Makefile.pdlibbuilder uses them for Windows systems
> (https://github.com/pure-data/pd-lib-builder).
> A relative simple example that compiled only a few days before: 
> https://github.com/electrickery/pd-maxlib
> 
> Fred Jan
> 
> >> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 07. April 2016 um 17:20 Uhr
> >> Von: "Fred Jan Kraan" <fjkraan at xs4all.nl>
> >> An: pd-list at lists.iem.at
> >> Betreff: Re: [PD] Externals built with MSYS2/MinGW won't load
> >>
> >> Hi Christof,
> >>
> >>> I should add that I followed the steps given here:
> >>>
> >>> https://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2007-06/051560.html
> >>
> >> 2007 is quite a long time ago. I have success with this description:
> >> http://puredata.info/docs/developer/WindowsMinGW, but this is 32-bits.
> >> Is there a special reason for compiling for 64-bits? I noticed 32-bits
> >> excutables works ok on a 64-bits Windows. And all externals at deken are
> >> 32-bits...
> >>>
> >>> However, "-export_dynamic" gave me:
> >>>
> >>> C:\msys64\mingw32\bin\ld.exe: warning: cannot find entry symbol xport_dynamic; defaulting to 10001000
> >>>
> >>> trying "-E" and "--export-dynamic":
> >>
> >> Some time ago the gmu compiler switched to '--export-dynamic' for this
> >> option.
> >>>
> >>> C:\msys64\mingw32\bin\ld.exe: warning: --export-dynamic is not supported for PE targets, did you mean --export-all-symbols?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> so I tried with "--export-all-symbols" and this worked for obj1.c and obj2.c. I can't, however, see why it doesn't work for obj3.c as the difference to obj2.c is rather marginal (adds an outlet and a state variable).
> >>>
> >>> Any hints are greatly appreciated!
> >>
> >> About the previous errors; make really dislikes spaces in paths. Try it
> >> with paths without spaces.
> >>
> >> Greetings & success,
> >>
> >> Fred Jan
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 07. April 2016 um 02:22 Uhr
> >>>> Von: "Christof Ressi" <christof.ressi at gmx.at>
> >>>> An: Pd-List <pd-list at lists.iem.at>
> >>>> Betreff: [PD] Externals built with MSYS2/MinGW won't load
> >>>>
> >>>> Dear list,
> >>>>
> >>>> I tried to compile the test externals in doc/6.externs on Windows 7 from the command line using MSYS2/MinGW.
> >>>> I put everything (source files, m_pd.h and pd.dll) in one folder for the sake of convenience.
> >>>>
> >>>> I compile with
> >>>> $ gcc -c obj1.c -o obj1.o
> >>>> and link with
> >>>> $ ld --export-all-symbols -shared -o test-obj3.dll obj3.o pd.dll
> >>>>
> >>>> compiling and linking works without any errors or warnings.
> >>>> test-obj1 and test-obj2 seem to load and work fine in Pd, but for test-obj3 Pd console tells me:
> >>>>
> >>>> "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\pd vanilla\\extra\\stuff\\test-obj3.dll: couldn't load"
> >>>>
> >>>> The same thing happens when I try to build test-obj4, test-obj5 and test-dspobj~.
> >>>> What could be the problem? I took the source files as they were and built all objects the exact same way...
> >>>>
> >>>> Many thanks in advance!
> >>>>
> >>>>
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