On 2013-04-26 23:48, Peter Rosin wrote: > On 2013-04-26 18:51, NightStrike wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 4:06 AM, Peter Rosin <p...@lysator.liu.se> wrote: >>> You had LD=i686-w64-mingw32-gcc, which will not make libtool happy. You >>> might try LD=i686-w64-mingw32-ld instead, but you shouldn't need to >>> specify LD... >> >> I'll try LD=i68...-ld, but libtool should really fix that. > > I humbly disagree. What you are doing is not supported. You are effectively > "lying" (using the terminology of the libtool manual) to configure (by > claiming you are on a MinGW host, when in fact you are on a Linux host). > Compare with the Libtool manual section 15.3.7.6 > > http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/manual/libtool.html#Cygwin-to-MinGW-Cross > > but think Linux/Wine instead of Cygwin as the build. When you have fixed > this issue, you will probably bump into something else. E.g., I guess you > should specify: > export lt_cv_to_host_file_cmd=func_convert_file_nix_to_w32 > export lt_cv_to_tool_file_cmd=func_convert_file_nix_to_w32 > > Further, will not the dependency tracking output from the MinGW gcc > generate a bunch of w32 paths that mixes badly with Linux make? > > Are you absolutely sure that you have to "lie" to configure? Why not do > the decent thing and leave --host unspecified so that config.guess can
Oops, --build, not --host. > do its thing? > > And if you don't "lie", you might as well use a linux-hosted cross-compiler > targeting mingw and just rely on wine to run testsuites etc. But even if > you move from the "lying" case to the "fake" case (i.e. still using the > mingw-hosted native compiler in wine), chances are that it will work > better that the "lying" case. But I don't know that, haven't tried... > > The reason the "lying" and "fake" cases work when crossing from Cygwin > to MinGW is that the true build system (Cygwin) understands w32 based > paths (most of the time anyway). Your true build system (Linux) does not, > so you are in uncharted territory. Cheers, Peter _______________________________________________ https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
