Re: elf-attrs.c compliation errors

Bill Morgan
2018-08-01T14:24:35Z

On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 7:45 AM Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca> wrote:

> On 2018-07-31 20:44, Bill Morgan wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm building this commit: 33633d9f5b138a211405d482436db2f7661b190e
> >
> > With this configuration:
> >
> > ./configure \
> > --build=x86_64-w64-mingw64 \
> > --host=x86_64-w64-mingw64 \
> > --target=arm-none-eabi \
> > --with-python \
> > --without-tcl \
> > --without-tk \
> > --without-guile \
> > --with-expat \
> > --with-lzma \
> > --with-system-readline \
> > --with-zlib \
> > --enable-tui
> >
> > I am getting the compilation errors below:
> >
>
> [snip]
>
> I also get this error when trying to build on Windows.

Thanks for confirming.

> I installed
> mingw-w64 using the installer found here:
>
> http://mingw-w64.org/doku.php/download/mingw-builds
>
> I just noticed that the host gets auto-detected as "x86_64-pc-mingw64"
> (same as you specified explicitly). I see that when building on mingw,
> -Wno-format should be added, specifically ignoring these warnings:
>
>
> https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=blob;f=bfd/warning.m4;h=5a7f92d61622c6a0934aa950f8aaa6bf55677d43;hb=HEAD#l75
>
> However, it's only done when the host string contains "mingw32", not
> "mingw64". Maybe this needs to be adjusted to "*-*-mingw*"? If you
> grep, you'll find a bunch of other things conditionally done if the
> triplet is "*-*-mingw32*", maybe they need to be adjusted too?
>
>
I noticed that the mingw-w64-gdb package is built with the mingw32 third
part of the triple.

https://github.com/Alexpux/MSYS2-packages/blob/335af17a04df7481e80979eafbd134fef9de9a0f/pacman/makepkg_mingw64.conf#L49

https://github.com/Alexpux/MINGW-packages/blob/dbe70c831fe4024016d5466213b9167c31cdf054/mingw-w64-gdb/PKGBUILD#L85

I will use that configuration.

Simon
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