Re: Windows cross compile build

[Friedrich Beckmann]

Hi John,

I tested the pspp-64bit-install.exe installer from here

https://caeis.etech.fh-augsburg.de/downloads/windows/pspp-win-daily/1.5.3-g8d023f/

on Windows 11 and it did not crash. The examples and the html help are working.

As you already guessed the problem was the mingw64-configure/make which does not

work as expected. I now build also the dependencies with your script on debian bullseye.

How did you survive to even jump into the nsis windoze installer stuff?...

Cheers

Fritz

Am 29.12.2021 um 23:42 schrieb John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>:

I think Harry had a similar problem, and from what I remember I concluded
that the  mingw64-  scripts which Opensuse shipped were trying to be too
clever for their own good.

What they do is they force ALL builds to ALWAYS build for mingw64 - which
is not what we want.   For reasons I won't discuss now, cross building
PSPP first requires a native build.  The mingw64-configure/make stuff
messes this up.

I presume you have executed the script Windows/build-dependencies?

I suggest you build the way the build-dependencies script recommends,
by passing the --host= and other arguments.

J'

On Wed, Dec 29, 2021 at 10:18:34PM +0100, Friedrich Beckmann wrote:
    Hi John,

    I try to get the CI/CD chain back to live. I tried to build the windows cross build on opensuse by using the the latest source package from Ben which is 1.5.3-g8d023f. Inside the source tree I created a build directory „fritz“. From there I started "mingw64-configure“ and then „mingw64-make“. The configure stage was successfull but the make ended with

    libtool: link: /usr/bin/x86_64-w64-mingw32-ranlib .libs/libgl.a
    libtool: link: ( cd ".libs" && rm -f "libgl.la" && ln -s "../libgl.la" "libgl.la" )
    make[6]: Leaving directory '/home/pspp/pspp-1.5.3-g8d023f/fritz/native/gl'
    make[5]: Leaving directory '/home/pspp/pspp-1.5.3-g8d023f/fritz/native/gl'
    make[4]: Leaving directory '/home/pspp/pspp-1.5.3-g8d023f/fritz/native/gl'
    make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/pspp/pspp-1.5.3-g8d023f/fritz/native'
    (cd native && flock --verbose ./native-lock make src/ui/terminal/pspp)
    flock: getting lock took 0.000016 seconds
    flock: executing make
    make[3]: Entering directory '/home/pspp/pspp-1.5.3-g8d023f/fritz/native'
    make[3]: *** No rule to make target 'src/ui/terminal/pspp'.  Stop.
    make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/pspp/pspp-1.5.3-g8d023f/fritz/native'
    make[2]: *** [Makefile:14330: native/src/ui/terminal/pspp] Error 2
    make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/pspp/pspp-1.5.3-g8d023f/fritz'
    make[1]: *** [Makefile:12371: all-recursive] Error 1
    make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/pspp/pspp-1.5.3-g8d023f/fritz'
    make: *** [Makefile:6490: all] Error 2
    (sandbox) pspp@windows:~/pspp-1.5.3-g8d023f/fritz$ mingw64-configure

    Do you maybe have an example how to do the windows cross build?

    Regards

    Fritz