Re: [Confuse-devel] Compilation problem with MinGW cross-compile

[Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon]

On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 10:07:46PM -0400, Nathan Phillip Brink wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 11:56:44PM +0930, Josh Heidenreich wrote:
> > 
> > I am having a problem cross-compiling libconfuse 2.7 using MinGW on Linux.
> > 
> > The compilation works but not for shared libraries. I have attached
> > the output from the configure and make commands.

libconfuse doesn't enable shared libraries by default, and is therefore
better if linked statically anyway, dynamic libraries work though and
this case is just a sideffect of using a cross-compiler.

> > I get the following warning:
> > libtool: link: warning: undefined symbols not allowed in
> > i386-pc-mingw32 shared libraries
> 
> I just made a commit to confuse's git repository which let me build a DLL 
> using mingw32 and ./configure's cross-compilation support. However, I was 
> unable to test if this DLL was actually useful or not, as I am not running 
> Windows.

the resulting binary can work in linux too through wine, in this
case the ftpconf example is shown to work by (after building the
tree with --enable-shared):

  $ cd examples
  $ i686-pc-mingw32-gcc -I../src -O2 -L../src/.libs -g -pipe -Wall 
-Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -mms-bitfields 
../src/.libs/libconfuse-0.dll ftpconf.c -o ftpconf.exe
  $ cp -a ../src/.libs/libcofuse-0.dll
  $ ./ftpconf.exe
  got alias 'ls' = 'ls -F'
  got alias 'll' = 'ls -lF'
  passive-mode = true
  remote-completion = false
  number of bookmarks: 2
    bookmark #1: anonymous:address@hidden:21/pub/gnu
    bookmark #2: anonymous:anonymous@@ftp.kernel.org:8021/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6
  xterm-terminal #1: xterm
  xterm-terminal #2: rxvt
  xterm-terminal #3: xterm-debian
  auto-create-bookmark = 3
  $ file ftpconf.exe
  ftpconf.exe: PE32 executable for MS Windows (console) Intel 80386 32-bit
  $ objdump -x ftpconf.exe | grep "DLL Name"
        DLL Name: KERNEL32.dll
        DLL Name: msvcrt.dll
        DLL Name: libconfuse-0.dll

Carlo

PS. wincfgtest.c is an example for GUI which used to be working for 2.7
    and that was configured by default to use a DLL.