Re: [Bug-tar] Re: need to build a Windows tar with no cywin1.dll dependency

[Mike Maki]

Thanks Lars and others who suggested MinGW, MSYS. I have that  set up now.

Where it builds in cygwin but won't run in DOS, the problem now is 
configure succeeds but make fails in MSYS/MinGW.

The log messages at the end of make look like:
depbase=`echo prepargs.o | sed 's|[^/]*$|.deps/&|;s|\.o$||'`;\
       gcc -std=gnu99 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I..     -g -O2 -MT 
prepargs.o -MD -M
P -MF $depbase.Tpo -c -o prepargs.o prepargs.c &&\
       mv -f $depbase.Tpo $depbase.Po
depbase=`echo rtapelib.o | sed 's|[^/]*$|.deps/&|;s|\.o$||'`;\
       gcc -std=gnu99 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I..     -g -O2 -MT 
rtapelib.o -MD -M
P -MF $depbase.Tpo -c -o rtapelib.o rtapelib.c &&\
       mv -f $depbase.Tpo $depbase.Po
rtapelib.c: In function `do_command':
rtapelib.c:124: error: `SIGPIPE' undeclared (first use in this function)
rtapelib.c:124: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
rtapelib.c:124: error: for each function it appears in.)
rtapelib.c: In function `rmt_open__':
rtapelib.c:468: warning: implicit declaration of function `pipe'
rtapelib.c:477: warning: implicit declaration of function `fork'
rtapelib.c:500: warning: implicit declaration of function `setuid'
rtapelib.c:500: warning: implicit declaration of function `getuid'
rtapelib.c:500: warning: implicit declaration of function `setgid'
rtapelib.c:500: warning: implicit declaration of function `getgid'
rtapelib.c: In function `rmt_write__':
rtapelib.c:602: error: `SIGPIPE' undeclared (first use in this function)
make[4]: *** [rtapelib.o] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/mike/tar-1.22/lib'
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/mike/tar-1.22/lib'
make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/mike/tar-1.22/lib'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mike/tar-1.22'
make: *** [all] Error 2


I've googled the error and various people have seen it and sent the 
error to mailing lists, but I haven't found an appropriate solution.

BTW, the MinGW tar works in MSYS, but when I try to run in in a cmd 
(DOS) window, I get an error saying:

This application has failed to start because msys-1.0.dll was not found. 
Re-installing the application may fix this problem.

Another dependency on environment, this time msys.

Is there a switch for "configure" that removes that dependency or points 
to a different set of libraries to use? I have set LDFLAGS=-static to 
build a static executable, and am using --disable-nls to exclude 
language support.

thanks,

Mike

Lars Stoltenow wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 01:44:52PM -0500, Mike Maki wrote:
>   
> > > I've been looking at how to do this, but haven't found out how to
> > > make a tar.exe that will run in a dos cmd shell. Do I need to
> > > compile on a non-cygwin system using non-gnu compiler? The last
> > > thing I want to do is use MS VCC. I'm required to update to a
> > > recent version of tar.exe (we ship 1.12 now and would like to ship
> > > 1.21 or better). Thanks,
> > >       
>
> Use MinGW+MSYS: http://mingw.org
>
>