I actually thought switching to the same build platform that you were on might reduce some of the variables. When I was building on SLES (I posted my original message on it, but it's still held for moderation).
Under my SLES environment, I was able to build most of win32. It bails out before it actually completes bacula-fd.exe. There are complaints of numerous libraries missing. But I've seen threads indicating they aren't completely necessary. I don't mind switching back to that environment to finish debugging. I'm used to the Suse environment, whereas Ubuntu is quite different for me. If you can generate the win32 binaries for 3.0.3, I'd really appreciate it. I can then do some testing while I finish debugging in parallel. Many thanks Kern! And I understand you can't chew that kind of time. I've got several developers for me that I'd like to stick onto this. But I'm doing the early work. Once I have the build environment setup, I can get them all on the same page. We also have resources to build up test systems. -Mike Kern Sibbald wrote: > > Hello, > > I am not sure what went wrong. It seems to me that makeinfo is no longer > distributed, so we just ignore that "warning". You are getting an error. > See below ... > > Everything is described in the src/win32/README.mingw file. A number of > people have setup both the Win32 build (rather trivial any Linux sys admin > can do it) and the Win64 build (non-trivial -- you must be a C++ > programmer > to figure out the VSS problems). > > Unfortunately, we just don't have the time to give support. We supply > *everything* you need: code, third-party software, and instructions, with > the > exception of the Windows VSS code which we cannot distribute, but we tell > you > where we got it. > > If you need help, perhaps someone on the devel list who has done it before > can > help you. If that doesn't work, about the only other choice is to ask for > professional help (sorry, but that is $$). > > If you want to test version 3.0.3, and you need a Win32 build, let us > know. > We can build and post them from time to time. > > Good luck, > > Kern > > On Saturday 05 September 2009 16:05:01 wvoice wrote: >> Hi Kern, >> >> I've installed 8.04 and am making less progress that I was with SLES. >> Right >> now, I am not building the cross-compile environment properly. I.e., it's >> failing to build binutils and isn't giving much explanation. I get a >> warning about a missing makeinfo, but that doesn't look like it's the >> culprit. >> >> Here's what I'm getting: >> >> Patching binutils >> ./build-win32-cross-tools: 526: patch: not found >> Configuring binutils >> Building binutils >> configure: WARNING: >> *** Makeinfo is missing. Info documentation will not be built. >> WARNING: `makeinfo' is missing on your system. You should only need it >> if >> you modified a `.texi' or `.texinfo' file, or any other file >> indirectly affecting the aspect of the manual. The spurious >> call might also be the consequence of using a buggy `make' (AIX, >> DU, IRIX). You might want to install the `Texinfo' package or >> the `GNU make' package. Grab either from any GNU archive site. >> make[3]: *** >> [/home/myoung/bacula-devel/bacula/cross-tools/source/binutils-2.16.91-20060 >>119-1/bfd/doc/bfd.info] Error 1 >> make[2]: *** [info-recursive] Error 1 >> make[1]: *** [all-bfd] Error 2 >> make: *** [all] Error 2 >> make of binutils failed - log available: binutils-mingw32/make.log >> >> I'm not seeing anything useful in make.log. >> >> Thoughts? I'm trying to generate the windows FD so I can start testing >> out >> 3.0.3. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Mike >> >> Kern Sibbald wrote: >> > On Friday 04 September 2009 16:29:58 wvoice wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> I'm still having issues trying to build the Windows binaries for 3.0.2 >> >> and >> >> 3.0.3 on SLES. Is there a recommended OS and version that the core >> >> developers are using? >> > >> > Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) >> > >> > Regards, >> > >> > Kern >> > >> > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >----- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports >> 2008 >> > 30-Day >> > trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and >> > focus on >> > what you do best, core application coding. 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