I'm having a problem building gawk for mingw64. I'm not using configure, as that assumes a POSIX-like environment such as msys or cygwin). Rather, gawk has a customised build process for PC/mingw. You copy some customised files from the pc subdirectory, including a makefile and a config.h, and then run make.
What I'm trying to do is to modify this build process to allow it to be packaged. So I've made the code get its paths relative to the exe (using the msys2 pathtools library), and modified how the default path is set. I'm setting a prefix=/mingw64 argument to make, which I'm then using to set defines -DBINDIR="\"$(prefix)/bin\"" and a default path, in the CFLAGS. Then I make the default path relative (using BINDIR as the root). It's not the most straightforward process, but it's relatively clean. The problem is that it appears that by the time the BINDIR and DEFPATH macros are seen in the source code, their values are Windows-style paths (C:\Work\Scratch\msys2\...), which completely breaks the path correction code which expects Unix-style paths. I'm guessing that this is caused by some part of the msys infrastructure "helpfully" converting paths. But I've no idea where, nor how to stop it doing so. Can anyone help? I could hard-code the values in the source, but if I do that, I can't make a viable PKGBUILD spec, as that requires the ability to specify the install directory at build time. (Hmm, actually I could - the relocation code doesn't care if the arguments to get_relocated_path_list are *accurate*, just that they are consistent. But it's horribly ugly, and I'd still like to know what's going on with the path translation code anyway). Thanks, Paul ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ BPM Camp - Free Virtual Workshop May 6th at 10am PDT/1PM EDT Develop your own process in accordance with the BPMN 2 standard Learn Process modeling best practices with Bonita BPM through live exercises http://www.bonitasoft.com/be-part-of-it/events/bpm-camp-virtual- event?utm_ source=Sourceforge_BPM_Camp_5_6_15&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=VA_SF _______________________________________________ Msys2-users mailing list Msys2-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/msys2-users
