Hi,
My first post here. First up, is there a better place to ask questions
relating to the building of parrot ? If so ... where ? If not ... read on.
I'm on Windows 2000, and parrot-0.4.1 builds straight out of the box using
MSVC++ 7.0 (.NET) and nmake. But there's a couple of issues when using MinGW
(gcc-3.4.4) and mingw32-make.
In config/gen/makefiles/root.in I find the line:
MINIPARROT = $(CUR_DIR)/miniparrot$(EXE)
Using MSVC++ and nmake, somewhere along the way, that forward slash gets
converted to a backslash (which is what needs to happen). But using gcc and
mingw32-make, the backslash stays as is. Put simply the problem is that, in
the cmd.exe shell, while '.\some.exe' works fine, './some.exe' always
produces the error:
'.' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program
or batch file.
How is that '/' to '\' conversion effected - so that I might apply it to the
MinGW build ?
As a quick hack, when building with MinGW, I simply first change the above
line in 'root.in' to:
MINIPARROT = miniparrot$(EXE)
That avoids the './miniparrot.exe ....' problem I initially experienced, but
the mingw32-make process still fails. Here's how it finishes:
miniparrot.exe config_lib.pasm > runtime/parrot/include/config.fpmc
F:\Perl58_M\5.8.8\bin\perl.exe tools/build/parrot_config_c.pl > \
src/parrot_config.c
src/parrot_config.c
F:\Perl58_M\5.8.8\bin\perl.exe tools/build/parrotdef.pl
gcc -o
rrot.exe -s -L"F:\Perl58_M\5.8.8\lib\CORE" -L"F:\MinGW\lib" -Wl,--out-impl
ib,parrot.a \
compilers/imcc/main.o
blib/lib/libparrot.a -lmsvcrt -lmoldname -lkernel32 -luser32 -lgdi32 -lwins
pool -lcomdlg32 -ladvapi32 -lshell32 -lole32 -loleaut32 -lnetapi32 -luuid -l
ws2_32 -lmpr -lwinmm -lversion -lodbc32 -lodbccp32 -lgmp \
src/parrot_config.o parrot.def
Cannot export Parrot_PMC_get_intval: symbol not defined
Cannot export Parrot_PMC_typenum: symbol not defined
Cannot export Parrot_call_method: symbol not defined
Cannot export Parrot_call_sub: symbol not defined
Creating library file: parrot.a
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
mingw32-make: *** [parrot.exe] Error 1
The failing command invokes 'gcc' because that's how 'root.in' evaluates
${link}. As a guess, I set ${link} to 'g++', but the error is still the
same.
When building with MSVC++ and nmake, the corresponding command is:
link -out:.\parrot.exe -nologo -nodefaultlib -debug -machine:x86 -debug
compilers\imcc\main.obj blib\lib\libparrot_s.lib oldnames.lib kernel32.lib
user32.lib gdi32.lib winspool.lib comdlg32.lib advapi32.lib shell32.lib
ole32.lib oleaut32.lib netapi32.lib uuid.lib ws2_32.lib mpr.lib winmm.lib
version.lib odbc32.lib odbccp32.lib msvcrt.lib
src\parrot_config.obj -def:parrot.def
Comparing the two, I can't really see why the former would fail while the
latter succeeds. I don't think the forward slashes in the former should
matter ... and I don't think the absence of '-lgmp' in the latter accounts
for the difference.
Any advice on how to proceed with this ?
Cheers,
Rob
