Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] Curl example fails to build

[Mark Brand]

René Berber wrote:
> At the end of making curl:
>
> 'i686-pc-mingw32-gcc' -W -Wall -Werror -ansi -pedantic 
> './src/curl-test.c' -o 
> '/opt/mxe/usr/i686-pc-mingw32/bin/test-curl.exe' 
> `'i686-pc-mingw32-pkg-config' libcurl --cflags --libs`
> i686-pc-mingw32-gcc: @CPPFLAG_CURL_STATICLIB@: No such file or directory
> make[1]: *** [build-only-curl] Error 1
>
>
> The output of pkg-config causes the problem:
>
> $ i686-pc-mingw32-pkg-config libcurl --cflags --libs
> @CPPFLAG_CURL_STATICLIB@ -I/opt/mxe/usr/i686-pc-mingw32/include 
> -L/opt/mxe/usr/i686-pc-mingw32/lib -lcurl -lcares -lidn -lintl -liconv 
> -lwldap32 -lssh2 -lssl -lcrypto -lgdi32 -lcrypt32 -lz -lws2_32
>
> Which of course is an error in 
> usr/i686-pc-mingw32/lib/pkgconfig/libcurl.pc, the last line :
>
> Cflags: -I${includedir} @CPPFLAG_CURL_STATICLIB@
>
> which comes from src/curl-1-fixes.patch, line 106:
>
> +Cflags: -I${includedir} @CPPFLAG_CURL_STATICLIB@
>
> The variable never gets substituted.

Hi René,

I just rebuilt curl at commit 217a662b70b29e309aafea499c0c2790781104dc 
and it works fine here. In libcurl.pc, I see "Cflags: -I${includedir} 
-DCURL_STATICLIB" as expected.

Would you mind digging a little deeper into what's going wrong?

Mark