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.
And, I'm using MinGW 64 which I've found here:
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:
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