Re: Windows Cross build fails because pspp executable is required during build

[Ben Pfaff]

For the specific case of cross-building Windows on GNU/Linux, it could
also work to install Wine. Many of the tests work OK that way, for
example.

On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 5:02 AM John Darrington
<john@darrington.wattle.id.au> wrote:
>
> We're now using the pspp binary to generate its own documentation.  So
> the documentation cannot work when cross building.  I can think of 3
> things we could do:
>
> 1.  Like Fritz suggests, ship the generated files in the tarball.
> 2.  Don't generate any documentation when cross building.
> 3.  For cross builds, also build a native binary and generate the
>     documentation using that.
>
> All of these solutions have their own (de)merits.
>
> J'
>
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 07:20:22AM +0100, Friedrich Beckmann wrote:
>      Hi,
>
>      i completely forgot that the windows build is a cross build, i.e. 
> pspp.exe can of course not be executed on the build machine. The current 
> build process fails with
>
>      ====
>      (cd ./examples \
>               && 
> /home/pspp/pspp-master-20201117/pspp-1.5.2-gc04cd4/src/ui/terminal/pspp.exe 
> ../doc/examples/autorecode.sps -o - -O format=spv) > 
> doc/examples/autorecode.spv.tmp
>      /bin/sh: line 1: 
> /home/pspp/pspp-master-20201117/pspp-1.5.2-gc04cd4/src/ui/terminal/pspp.exe: 
> cannot execute binary file: Fehler im Format der Programmdatei
>      make[2]: *** [Makefile:14217: doc/examples/autorecode.spv] Error 126
>      make[2]: Leaving directory 
> '/home/pspp/pspp-master-20201117/pspp-1.5.2-gc04cd4'
>      make[1]: *** [Makefile:12303: all-recursive] Error 1
>      make[1]: Leaving directory 
> '/home/pspp/pspp-master-20201117/pspp-1.5.2-gc04cd4'
>      make: *** [Makefile:6401: all] Error 2
>      Uncaught exception from user code:
>         system 'Mingw32-make'  failed: 512 at ./buildpspp4windows.pl line 
> 568, <FILE> line 937.
>         main::ProcMake() called at ./buildpspp4windows.pl line 369
>         main::ProcGeneratePSPP("w32", "Debug") called at 
> ./buildpspp4windows.pl line 124
>      program finished with exit code 2
>      elapsedTime=419.754343
>
>      ===
>
>      While executing a simple „make“
>
>      
> https://github.com/fredowski/pspp-buildbot/blob/master/win/buildpspp4windows.pl#L568
>
>      Any ideas how this can be avoided? Aren’t this examples for the 
> documentation, i.e. could that be part of the doc target?
>
>      http://caeis.etech.fh-augsburg.de:8010/#/builders/7/builds/95
>
>      Fritz
>
>
>
>