Re: MXE Octave - How to pass flag to linker?

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

----- Original Message -----

> From: mmuetzel 
> To: octave-maintainers
> Cc: 
> Date: 2017/4/6, Thu 22:36
> Subject: Re: MXE Octave - How to pass flag to linker?
> 
> Now the error message changed to the following:
> 
> configure:6571: checking whether the C compiler works
> configure:6593: x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc -DUNICODE -D_UNICODE
> -I/path_to_mxe_octave/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/include
> -Wl,-rpath-link,/path_to_mxe_octave/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/lib,-municode
> -L/path_to_mxe_octave/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/lib
> -L/path_to_mxe_octave/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/qt5/lib conftest.c  >&5
> /path_to_mxe_octave/usr/bin/x86_64-w64-mingw32-ld: unrecognised emulation
> mode: unicode
> Supported emulations: i386pep i386pe
> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
> configure:6597: $? = 1
> configure:6635: result: no
> configure: failed program was:
> | /* confdefs.h */
> | #define PACKAGE_NAME "GNU Octave"
> | #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "octave"
> | #define PACKAGE_VERSION "4.3.0+"
> | #define PACKAGE_STRING "GNU Octave 4.3.0+"
> | #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT "http://octave.org/bugs.html";
> | #define PACKAGE_URL "http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/";
> | #define PACKAGE "octave"
> | #define VERSION "4.3.0+"
> | #define OCTAVE_SOURCE 1
> | /* end confdefs.h.  */
> | 
> | int
> | main ()
> | {
> | 
> |   ;
> |   return 0;
> | }
> configure:6640: error: in
> `/path_to_mxe_octave/tmp-default-octave/octave-4.3.0+/.build':
> configure:6642: error: C compiler cannot create executables
> 
> 
> We might have a case of "you are probably using an old version of gcc that
> does not support this feature." [1]
> 
> I will try with gcc 5 that I should have around somewhere and report back.
> 


After some investigation, I found  what I wrote for -Wl is wrong.

Sorry for the noise.

As you wrote in the bug tracker, John D. will help you.

Tatsuro