On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 22:04:37 -0600
John Kristoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does someone have any detailed notes about installing a current version
> of AIDE under cygwin? mhash appears to compile OK, but the configure
> script in AIDE fails in its mhash library check. From the config.log:
[...]
> /[dir]/mhash-0.8.18/lib/mhash.c:664: multiple definition of `_main'
I finally got around to looking at this again and thought I would post
my solution in case any one else had a need for it.
Richard had pointed out the following in mhash.c:
#ifdef WIN32
WIN32DLL_DEFINE int main (void)
{
/* empty main function to avoid linker error (see cygwin FAQ) */
}
#endif
The cygwin FAQ at <http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_toc.html#TOC95> mentions a
potential problem with dynamic libraries needing this hack or that the
compiler line needs to be reordered. I didn't have much luck with the
latter, so to solve I removed the definition and main() function from
the mhash.c source file and built mhash as follows:
./configure --enable-static=yes --enable-shared=no
make
Then aide as:
./configure --with-extra-libs=-L/path/to/mhash-0.8.18/lib/.libs \
--with-extra-includes=-I/path/to/mhash-0.8.18/lib
make
A working aide.exe was the result.
John
