On 2019-10-26 08:09, Eliot Moss wrote: > On 10/25/2019 1:37 PM, Cary Lewis wrote: >> I tried to clone the repo, and after running configure, then make I got >> this error: >> >> make -C out BUILDTYPE=Release V=0 >> touch 12396aa5d0c66cc1eba58d7550d4db5f74c0a51c.intermediate >> >> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/clewis/node/out/Release/lib.host:/home/clewis/node/out/Release/lib.target:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH; >> >> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH; cd ../.; mkdir -p tools/msvs/genfiles; "mc >> src/res/node_etw_provider.man -h tools/msvs/genfiles -r tools/msvs/genfiles" >> /bin/sh: mc src/res/node_etw_provider.man -h tools/msvs/genfiles -r >> tools/msvs/genfiles: No such file or directory >> make[1]: *** [node_etw.target.mk:17: >> 12396aa5d0c66cc1eba58d7550d4db5f74c0a51c.intermediate] Error 127 >> rm 12396aa5d0c66cc1eba58d7550d4db5f74c0a51c.intermediate >> make: *** [Makefile:101: node] Error 2 > > This program's configure is not cygwin-aware, apparently. It sees something > that looks like Windows and it's heading toward msvs (Microsoft Visual > Studio), > a Windows program, not a cygwin program. > > I tried configure --dest-os=linux, and that mostly worked, but assumes ELF > binaries are being used, but cygwin uses PE, not ELF (so that Windows can > run the binaries linked with the cygwin library / runtime). So the openssl > assembly files failed. Using configure --dest-os=linux --openssl-no-asm got > past that problem but fails when trying to find /usr/include/sys/syscall.h, > someting not provided under cygwin. > > I also tried not giving --dest-os (and it then wants to do the msvs stuff, > i.e., it treats it as Windows) and --dest-os=posix (which is what uname -a > reports under modern cygwin) to no avail. > > So IMO node's configure needs to be adjusted, but how to do that correctly > is beyond my knowledge or the time I can invest.
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