Hello everyone, I'm having some build troubles, and am running out of ideas.
I'm using a Windows 10 (stable) VM in Virtual box. I'm using MSYS (20111123.zip <https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/files/External%20binary%20packages%20%28Win64%20hosted%29/MSYS%20%2832-bit%29/MSYS-20111123.zip/download>) which I found here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/files/External%20binary%20packages%20%28Win64%20hosted%29/MSYS%20%2832-bit%29/ And, I'm using MinGW 64 which I've found here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/files/Toolchains%20targetting%20Win64/Personal%20Builds/mingw-builds/5.3.0/threads-win32/seh/ I've gotten the gettext-0.18.2 tarball, and opened it. After that, I've run: ./configure Once that's complete, I run a quick perl script: perl -p -i -e 's:void cdecl:void __cdecl:g' */*/msvc-inval.c If I don't do this, I get an error: gl/msvc-inval.c:124:39: error: 'gl_msvc_invalid_parameter_handler' undeclared (first use in this function) I found a few threads on it, and a patch that seems applicable: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=commitdiff;h=86725346a1b116f3c2da26c124288f5f4495bf69;hp=2845ecc459a4ad03de8397a2c942c2e91d2d3ed5 With my perl script, I've made that patch to the 3 source files, and things get a lot farther along, but now I have linking troubles. I think the system tries creating libgettextlib.la but while doing so, it throws a warning: "This system can not link to static lib archive ../intl/libintl.la" After this, it tries to link and create libgettextlib.dll.a, and I get a bunch of errors (more on that later). I wanted to verify that I'm building a shared library, so for my next pass, since that warning has me worried. So, I did the following: ./configure --enable-threads=win32 --enable-shared --enable-relocatable I found those flags on various sites. I'm not sure if the 'relocatable' flag is even a thing for this build, but I'm pretty confident in the other two. The good news is that this time, I can tell that --enable-shared is doing its job because I see the following in the libgettextlib.dll.a link attempt (which happens just after the warning): libtool: link: g++ -shared Seeing that -shared flag is a good thing. But, I'm not seeing that flag on the ibgettextlib.la link, which is curious to me. Since it still throws a warning, I don't really know what's wrong. I would have thought that --enable-shared would fix it, so I'm confused as to why that isn't working in this case. Secondly, I'm confused on the error itself that I get when linking ibgettextlib.dll.a. That error at link time is: "undefined reference to libintl_gettext" I get a bunch of those errors all in a row, and then the link stage fails. I've tried looking around the internet for answers, but am coming up with answers that aren't really related to compiling gettext on Windows-- most threads are about compiling something else and linking gettext into it. Does anyone have any ideas as to what I need to do to make this work? Thanks! -John
