Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] building volk in MinGW

[Tom Rondeau]

On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 9:21 PM, Kyle Zhou <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 17/12/2010 1:01 PM, Tom Rondeau wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 7:14 PM, Kyle Zhou<address@hidden>  wrote:
>>>
>>> I try to build volk in MinGW and find the following issues:
>>> 1) config.sub and config.guess are corrupt. They seems to be corrupted
>>> symlinks. This can be corrected by copying from top level directory.
>>> 2) The following files lead to compile error with undeclared clock_t etc.
>>>   qa_32f_add_aligned16.cc
>>>   qa_32f_divide_aligned16.cc
>>>   qa_32f_multiply_aligned16.cc
>>>   qa_32f_sqrt_aligned16.cc
>>>   qa_16sc_magnitude_32f_aligned16.cc
>>> This can be fixed by #include<ctime>
>>>
>>> After these changes, make succeeded.
>>> make check does nothing, so I have not checked the functionality.
>>> I think I will study the usage of the volk library later.
>>>
>>> Kyle
>>
>> Thanks, Kyle, that's helpful. I'll make the ctime fix now and look
>> into the config.sub and config.guess issues.
>>
>> If you want to run a test, in volk/lib/test_all. This is what is
>> normally run by make check, but I have disabled it for speed. The
>> checks take a while to complete.
>>
>> Tom
>>
>
> I found config.sub and config.guess are symlink to
> /usr/share/automake-1.11/config.sub/guess
> But obviously those do not exist in MinGW.
> That is why in ubuntu there is no problem. But failed in MinGW.

You're right. That was a silly thing to do.

I just pushed an update to next with all of these fixed. Please let me
know if you run across anything else.


> I run test_all but without success.
> What I got is:
>
> .sse2 not available... no test performed
> .sse3 not available... no test performed
> .sse3 not available... no test performed
> .sse3 not available... no test performed
> .sse3 not available... no test performed
> .sse3 not available... no test performed
> .sse not available... no test performed
> .sse not available... no test performed
> .sse2 not available... no test performed
> .ssse3 not available... no test performed
> .ssse3 not available... no test performed
> .ssse3 not available... no test performed
> .sse2 not available... no test performed
> .32f_add_aligned
>
> after that a Windows popup message is up asking if report problem to MS.
> It seems to be some exception raised.
> I have no experience in cppunit so really no idea what is happening.
> Kyle

Don't know what to say about this one yet. Just more evidence that I
really need to get a Windows and OSX machine to test with.

Thanks again.

Tom