Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] gnutls failing to build

[Robert Lipe]

Thanx, Mark.  Master does indeed compile successfully.   Perhaps it's worth changing the recommendation on the page.

With that in place, GPSBabel build successfully with the MXE chain.  Yay!

In case it helps others, the QtCore in trunk vs. stable seems to have more Qt features turned on.  If you're getting link errors on CoCreateInstance WSAAsyncSelect IID_IPersistFile and such, the solution is to add -lole32 -lws2_32 -luuid after the -l of QtCore.

Thanx for the hand,

RJL

On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 7:18 AM, Mark Brand <address@hidden> wrote:

Robert Lipe wrote:

Hi,

I recently learned about MXE and was investigating it to replace the hodgepodge of tools I use to build GPSBabel. It looks really promising.   My goal is to be able to cross-compile code that uses Qt, though I've used Mingw for cross builds for years. Unfortunately, I ran into a problem I couldn't find in the mailing lists.

I'm hosting on a Mountain Lion system. I installed MacPorts and all the required packages via your directions.GCC and Binutils and all their little helpers all build and work just fine.  But a dependency for Qt jumps the rails.

$ make qt
[build]    gnutls

Failed to build package gnutls!
------------------------------------------------------------
    You should use the 'AC_CONFIG_HEADERS' macro instead.
/opt/local/share/aclocal-1.13/obsolete-err.m4:12: AM_CONFIG_HEADER is expanded from...

configure.ac:30 <http://configure.ac:30>: the top level

autom4te: /opt/local/bin/gm4 failed with exit status: 1
aclocal: error: echo failed with exit status: 1
make[1]: *** [build-only-gnutls] Error 1


 .git/HEAD shows I'm on stable, not dev, so I shouldn't have landed in a risky place.

Robert,

The stable branch is quite old. I recommend trying the master branch now. A lot has happened in in qt (Qt 4) and Qt 5 has been added as separate modules (qtbase, etc). With any luck, gnutls will build there for you too.

Mark