Re: [Unicon-group] build Unicon under Windows (XP SP3)

Sergey Logichev Tue, 11 Feb 2014 23:27:01 -0800

Jafar,

It would be great to try adding pthread library. But it seems to me that it's matter of Unicon but mingw. At least call "include phtread.h" is done from Unicon side. And this file is missed. Please send me all concerning to pthread.* that I could try.

I am using the last version of MinGW 4.8.1 loaded from http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/

Sergey

12.02.2014, 10:13, "Jafar Al-Gharaibeh" <to.ja...@gmail.com>:

Thanks for the update Sergey. Up to my knowledge, you are probably the first to try building Unicon from sources on Windows 8.1. It is good to hear that it worked.
If you want threads in Unicon on those machines I can send you the pthread library files that I use at my end. Just let me know. I'm still puzzled about pthread absence from MinGW. It's been available there for a couple of years at least. I don't know if you are using an older version.
Cheers,
Jafar
On Feb 11, 2014 11:31 PM, "Sergey Logichev" <slogic...@yandex.ru> wrote:
Jafar,

for Windows 8.1 build steps and modifications were the same as for XP and succeded too. Suppose, that adding lpthread to Windows build is some tricky process. At least this code is missed in Unicon source.

Sergey

11.02.2014, 19:03, "Jafar Al-Gharaibeh" <to.ja...@gmail.com>:
Sergey,

Great to see successful attempts to build Unicon from sources on Windows! Excellent!

libpthread-2.dll is required because the binaries are built with concurrency support. The dll file should be present somewhere on your path for Unicon programs to work as you found out.

--Jafar

On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 7:49 AM, Sergey Logichev <slogic...@yandex.ru> wrote:
Hello Jafar,

When I commented at unicon/config/win32/gcc/define32.h the following lines:
/*
#define HAVE_LIBPTHREAD 1
#define Concurrent 1
*/

and changed definitions at unicon/config/win32/gcc/makedefs32.top
OPTLIBS= --static
NTOPTLIBS=

build was successful for XP (without pthreads). Binary distribution of Unicon for win32 includes library libpthread-2.dll without which programs builded as unicon -B won't work. So, now I will dig farther and explore all diamonds of Unicon!

Sergey

10.02.2014, 23:12, "Jafar Al-Gharaibeh" <to.ja...@gmail.com>:
Sergey,

pthreads library (including pthread.h) has been available with the MinGW for the last couple of years at least? Are you using an older MinGW?

If you don't want concurrent threads you can simply comment out:

#define Concurrent 1 // in unicon/config/win32/gcc/define.h

and also comment out -lpthread from makedefs32.top in the same directory.

If you want threads and can't find the pthread library in mingw I will ship you the necessary files from my machine.

--Jafar

On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 3:39 AM, Sergey Logichev <slogic...@yandex.ru> wrote:
Hi Clint!

Yes, I know what XP is not a good platform. At home I have Windows 8.1 but now I am not at home.

As I found after investigations in the jungle of Unicon sources *.h files pthread.h is called from unicon\src\h\sys.h (line #212):

#ifdef HAVE_LIBPTHREAD
#if !UNIX || !defined(Audio)
#include <pthread.h>
#endif /* PthreadCoswitch & ! Audio */
#include <semaphore.h>
#endif /* HAVE_LIBPTHREAD */

At the evening I will try to repeat at Windows 8.1, it's interesting what will be the results?

Of course, I have installed Unicon without any troubles from binary setup. But it was interested for me to make it from sources. It's for hackers, sometimes I want to be such person :-)))

Problem of compatibility is very complex and I agree with Jafar that it's a very unrealistic to automatically solve it. Things are changed all the time! And as practice shows, it will be even speeded up in the future. I would say that modern programming is an ordered chaos. Such a lot of different codes linked in an inconceivable mess. How it works after all! Nowbody knows!

Thank you!
Sergey

10.02.2014, 13:24, "Jeffery, Clint (jeffe...@uidaho.edu)" <jeffe...@uidaho.edu>:
Sergey,

I am sure Jafar will have more intelligent things to say, but I will try to make a couple small observations. Windows XP is liable to give you troubles in building Unicon. It will probably run Unicon binaries just fine, but building Unicon from source is harder. Did the binaries not work for you for some reason, or do you just prefer to build from source?

It may be possible to walk you through the configuration failure points manually, but I suspect that the current build/configure toolchain requires Windows 7 or newer. We are continually trying to figure out how to make the build rules on Windows as stable and portable as on UNIX, but Microsoft keeps changing things such that our configure+build toolchain keeps breaking. Old MSYS would not run properly on newer Windows. New MSYS might not run properly on old Windows; it is a mess.

I want to rewrite all our build toolchain in Unicon so that we can control what's going on, but Jafar thinks I am crazy, and his word is law on the Windows Unicon builds, pretty much. :-)

Cheers,
Clint

From: Sergey Logichev <slogic...@yandex.ru>
Sent: Monday, February 10, 2014 1:05 AM
To: unicon-group@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Unicon-group] build Unicon under Windows (XP SP3)

Hello,

As Clinton Jeffery asked I switched my question about Unicon build to here. Suppose, Jafar will answer me.

I have downloaded Unicon's source code from SVN repositary and tried to build it on Windows with help of MinGW (configured as MinGW base+MSYS base). But I failed. Below is decription of my troubles:

To run make command I created a tiny script "make-unicon.bat":

setlocal
set path=c:\utils\mingw\bin;c:\utils\mingw\msys\1.0\bin;%path%
make NT-Configure-GCC
make Unicon
endlocal

Below is its output:

C:\work\unicon>set path=c:\work\unicon\bin;c:\utils\mingw\msys\1.0\bin;

C:\work\unicon>make NT-Configure-GCC
cd config/win32/gcc && sh config.sh

Now remember to add unicon/bin to your path
Then run make Unicon to build

C:\work\unicon>make Unicon
cd src/rtt && make
make[1]: Entering directory `/c/work/unicon/src/rtt'
makefile:1: ../../makedefs: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `../../makedefs'. Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/c/work/unicon/src/rtt'
make: *** [Icon-icont] Error 2

C:\work\unicon>

OK, I have seen message Now remember to add unicon/bin to your path and slightly changed my make-unicon.bat

setlocal
set path=c:\utils\mingw\bin;c:\utils\mingw\msys\1.0\bin;%path%
make NT-Configure-GCC
set path=c:\work\unicon\bin;%path%
make Unicon
endlocal

Below its output:

C:\work\unicon>set path=c:\work\unicon\bin;c:\utils\mingw\msys\1.0\bin;

C:\work\unicon>make NT-Configure-GCC
cd config/win32/gcc && sh config.sh

cd config/win32/gcc && sh nt-config.sh

Configuring for console build...

cd config/win32/gcc && sh config32.sh

Running 32-bit build configuration...

Done!

echo Run "make Unicon" to build
Run make Unicon to build

C:\work\unicon>set path=c:\work\unicon\bin;c:\utils\mingw\bin;c:\utils\mingw\msys\1.0\bin;

C:\work\unicon>make Unicon
cd src/rtt && make
make[1]: Entering directory `/c/work/unicon/src/rtt'
gcc -m32 -O2 -D_X86_ -I../gdbm -I../libtp -DRttx -DRTT -DTokDotH=\"../rtt/ltoken.h\" -DNTConsole -c -o rttparse.o rttparse
c
In file included from ../preproc/../h/gsupport.h:16:0,
from ../preproc/preproc.h:1,
from rtt1.h:1,
from rttgram.y:7:
../preproc/../h/../h/sys.h:211:21: fatal error: pthread.h: No such file or directory
#include <pthread.h>
^
compilation terminated.
make[1]: *** [rttparse.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/c/work/unicon/src/rtt'
make: *** [Icon-icont] Error 2

As I understood file /mingw/include/pthread.h is missed. Why? And where I will get it?

Best regards,
Sergey Logichev

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