Re: [Bug-wget] [bug-wget] Compiling Wget on Windows
Greetings, Ray Satiro. I can do --enable-threads=windows or --disable-threads but if I don't do either or I do --enable-threads=posix then posix is enabled and the build fails due to missing pthread lib. Sorry, my mistake (I'm type command's to promt manually, not by copy-paste. And forgot to correct copied to mail script that work with old GNULib (behaviour was changed by GNULib git commits 9ceceed, 55ba71f, 96a263f from 20,29,30 May 2013)). Yes, i'm use --disable-threads. Without --disable-threads or --enable-threads=windows regexp give error. File with logs updated (added config.log and config.status). Thanks for correcting. -- Best regars, Alex
Re: [Bug-wget] [bug-wget] Compiling Wget on Windows
From: Bykov Aleksey gnfa...@rambler.ru To: dar...@gmail.com [...] Last time i had recieved error with wget bootstrap or configure (basic) in mingw long time ago... I use mingw-get-inst-20120426.exe and choose download lastest repository packages. Components - C compiler, C++ compiler, MSYS Basic System and MinGW Developer Toolkit. Install it to some new dir. Add folder Source with wget and gnulib. Replace _PC_NAME_MAX with 256 in url.c:1620. Also there's a patch for that on the parallel-wget branch, MinGW compatibility fixes. Then run ./bootstrap --no-git --gnulib-srcdir=../gnulib 21 | tee bootstrap.log (./configure --disable-nls --without-ssl --disable-iri 21 make 21)| tee configmake.log I stand corrected, the bootstrapping process appears to work properly with mingw now. I tested in a clean XP VM but I couldn't reproduce a build using your commands. Can you up your config.log? When I ran configure threads were enabled. Did you explicitly disable threads? Yours has: checking for multithread API to use... none but mine has: checking whether imported symbols can be declared weak... no checking pthread.h usability... yes checking pthread.h presence... yes checking for pthread.h... yes checking for pthread_kill in -lpthread... yes checking for multithread API to use... posix Otherwise the configure output is almost identical. Then I ran make and it failed because -lpthread wasn't added. saw a lot of this: ../lib/libgnu.a(regex.o):regex.c:(.text+0xa4e5): undefined reference to `_imp__pthread_mutex_init' compiles once added: gcc -O2 -Wall -o wget.exe cmpt.o connect.o convert.o cookies.o ftp.o css_.o css-url.o ftp-basic.o ftp-ls.o hash.o host.o html-parse.o html-url.o http.o init.o log.o main.o netrc.o progress.o ptimer.o recur.o res.o retr.o spider.o url.o warc.o utils.o exits.o build_info.o version.o ftp-opie.o mswindows.o ../lib/libgnu.a -lws2_32 -lpthread I can do --enable-threads=windows or --disable-threads but if I don't do either or I do --enable-threads=posix then posix is enabled and the build fails due to missing pthread lib.
[Bug-wget] [bug-wget] Compiling Wget on Windows
Greeting, Darshit Shah By some reason during bootstrap You does not acquire aclocal.m4. Please try to create it manually by aclocal command. What error it give? Is folder m4 exist? Is build-aux contain more than 2 files? What MinGW version You had installed? How did You install it? Last time i had recieved error with wget bootstrap or configure (basic) in mingw long time ago... I use mingw-get-inst-20120426.exe and choose download lastest repository packages. Components - C compiler, C++ compiler, MSYS Basic System and MinGW Developer Toolkit. Install it to some new dir. Add folder Source with wget and gnulib. Replace _PC_NAME_MAX with 256 in url.c:1620. Then run ./bootstrap --no-git --gnulib-srcdir=../gnulib 21 | tee bootstrap.log (./configure --disable-nls --without-ssl --disable-iri 21 make 21)| tee configmake.log My logs - http://db.tt/mmYvI2D0 -- Best regars, Alex
Re: [Bug-wget] [bug-wget] Compiling Wget on Windows
Darshit Shah dar...@gmail.com writes: I wished to compile the latest git revision of Wget on Windows in order to run some tests. However, I have failed miserably in my attempts to understand how to compile Wget on Windows. I set up a virtual system with MingW installed (I do not wish to create a CygWin executable if possible.) Alongwith MingW, I installed Perl and Visual Studio Express 2008. Similar to how one would proceed on a UNIX system, I ran: $ ./bootstrap --gnulib-srcdir=../gnulib in the MingW shell. This command however fails with the following error: configure.ac:1: error: possibly undefined macro: dnl If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow. See the Autoconf documentation. configure.ac:41: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_MSG_NOTICE configure.ac:74: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_DEFINE configure.ac:253: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_CHECK_LIB configure.ac:283: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_MSG_ERROR autoreconf-2.68: /mingw/bin/autoconf-2.68 failed with exit status: 1 How am I supposed to solve this? I haven't tried myself as I have no access to a Windows machine, but it should just work, have you tried with a newer autoconf version? In any case, it is not our goal to be able to regenerate configure scripts under MingW, it is enough that you are able to build wget, i.e. ./configure make. If you still have problems, what about generate these files on a GNU/Linux machine and use the generated dist files under Windows? -- Giuseppe
[Bug-wget] [bug-wget] Compiling Wget on Windows
I wished to compile the latest git revision of Wget on Windows in order to run some tests. However, I have failed miserably in my attempts to understand how to compile Wget on Windows. I set up a virtual system with MingW installed (I do not wish to create a CygWin executable if possible.) Alongwith MingW, I installed Perl and Visual Studio Express 2008. Similar to how one would proceed on a UNIX system, I ran: $ ./bootstrap --gnulib-srcdir=../gnulib in the MingW shell. This command however fails with the following error: configure.ac:1: error: possibly undefined macro: dnl If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow. See the Autoconf documentation. configure.ac:41: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_MSG_NOTICE configure.ac:74: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_DEFINE configure.ac:253: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_CHECK_LIB configure.ac:283: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_MSG_ERROR autoreconf-2.68: /mingw/bin/autoconf-2.68 failed with exit status: 1 How am I supposed to solve this? -- Thanking You, Darshit Shah
Re: [Bug-wget] [bug-wget] Compiling Wget on Windows
From: Darshit Shah dar...@gmail.com To: bug-wget@gnu.org Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2013 4:08 PM Subject: [Bug-wget] [bug-wget] Compiling Wget on Windows I wished to compile the latest git revision of Wget on Windows in order to run some tests. However, I have failed miserably in my attempts to understand how to compile Wget on Windows. I set up a virtual system with MingW installed (I do not wish to create a CygWin executable if possible.) Alongwith MingW, I installed Perl and Visual Studio Express 2008. Wget can no longer be compiled using visual studio. From what I remember the main problem was because visual studio is not fully c99 compatible therefore when you compile c all variable declarations have to be at the beginning of a block. I submitted some patches a while back to fix that but I'm not sure what happened, whether it was decided it wasn't worth it for vs anymore or what. Also there is dependence on gnulib now. I would stick with mingw like you're trying to do and if you need debug add gdb3 switch. You bring up a good point re bootstrap/ac. It does not work properly in windows. I don't recall that being any fault of wget. When I was working with the nightlies I'd build the configure scripts in linux using ./bootstrap --copy , then switch to windows to run the configure. It usually ran fine although sometimes a few bumps. Processes are expensive in windows and you will notice running a configure script and build take a long time, so you may want to consider cross compiling everything for windows in linux depending on the type of work you are doing. I think Giuseppe had some sort of special procedure for that rather than just the toolchain; or maybe I'm thinking of another project? Maybe Giuseppe can weigh in here on what OS he uses to build the configure scripts for alphas and the exact steps he takes so that you can do that and have a solid configure script that will work well to build in mingw. Also you should be aware some of the current wget tests from the test script fail incorrectly on windows. This has also been discussed but I don't remember what happened with it. I've searched for this and everything I've mentioned above via google but I'm not finding much, sorry.
