Re: problems building GNU gettext 0.18.1.1 on MinGW / MSYS

[Erik Faye-Lund]

On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 2:32 AM, Bruno Haible <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Erik Faye-Lund wrote:
>> I'm working on building gettext for the msysGit project, so we can
>> have a localized Git for Windows. I've tried to build GNU gettext the
>> following way:
>>
>> $ ./configure --prefix=/mingw --enable-threads=win32 --enable-relocatable && 
>> make
>>
>> The configure script completes (config.log attached), and make starts
>> running. After a while the build errors out with the following output:
>>
>> /bin/sh ../libtool  --tag=CC   --mode=link gcc -std=gnu99  -g -O2 `:
>> /mingw/bin` -Wl,--disable-auto-import -o msgcmp.exe msgcmp-msgcmp.o
>> msgcmp-msgl-fsearch.o libgettextsrc.la   gettext.res
>> libtool: link: gcc -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -Wl,--disable-auto-import -o
>> .libs/msgcmp.exe msgcmp-msgcmp.o msgcmp-msgl-fsearch.o gettext.res
>> ./.libs/libgettextsrc.a -L/mingw/lib
>> /src/gettext/gettext-0.18.1.1/gettext-tools/gnulib-lib/.libs/libgettextlib.a
>> /src/gettext/gettext-0.18.1.1/gettext-tools/intl/.libs/libintl.a
>> /mingw/lib/libiconv.dll.a -L/mingw/lib
>> msgcmp-msgcmp.o: In function `compare':
>> C:\msysgit\src\gettext\gettext-0.18.1.1\gettext-tools\src/msgcmp.c:478:
>> undefined reference to `_imp__po_charset_ascii'
>
> gettext's README.woe32 recommends Cygwin as a build environment for mingw
> binaries, not MSYS.
>
> If you intend to continue on MSYS, then the place to look at is whether
> the mechanism for exporting the global variables from the DLLs are
> working?
>  1) Are libgettextlib and libgettextsrc being built as shared libraries?
>  2) Is the gettextlib-exports.o or gettextsrc-exports.o file, respectively,
>     being included in the link of these shared libraries?
>  3) Do these object files export the necessary symbols?
>  4) Is there no confusion between _imp__xx and __imp__xx?
> For details of this mechanism, see the gettext/gettext-tools/woe32dll/export.h
> file.
>

Thanks a lot for the feed-back, but I figured out what my problem was:
some stale files from a previous build, so a "make clean" sorted that
out. How embarrassing! :P

Turns out building gettext on MSYS works just fine for me, I was just
being a moron! Sorry for wasting your time.