[gnome-db] autoconf/make issues under mSys/MinGW

[Brecht Sanders <brecht sanders org>]

Hi,
I'm still struggling to compile libgda under mSys/MinGW.
For those who are not familiar with this environment, it is a gcc
compatible environment for the win32 platform (also exists for Linux for
cross-compilation for win32), which has all the required tools for
compiling (sh, make, autoconf, gcc, ...).
I already made all the latest versions of depenancies of libgda.
The following compile issues I was able to work around, but these
probably still need a good final solution:

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file:       libgda/gda-parameter-list.c
problem:    compilation failed on unknow type "uint"
workaround: add "-Duint=guint" to CFLAGS
see also:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-db-list/2007-January/msg00038.html
solution:   replace "uint" with "unsigned short"
status:     to be fixed

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error:      /usr/bin/env: perl -w: No such file or directory
workaround: ln -s `which perl.exe` '/usr/local/bin/perl -w'
solution:   change autoconfiguration script to generate "#!/usr/bin/env
- perl -w"
            instead of "#!/usr/bin/env perl -w"
status:     to be fixed

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file:       libgda/gda-enum-types.h
problem:    contains lines like this:
            C:/Prog/MinGW-mSys/* enumerations from "gda-client.h" *//n
            which shoult probably just look like this:
            /* enumerations from "gda-client.h" */
            apparently the mSys/MinGW path (with forward slashes) and a
\n somehow make it into this file
workaround: mv libgda/gda-enum-types.h libgda/gda-enum-types.h.orig
            sed -e 's/^.:\/.*\(\/\*.*\*\/\)\/n$/\1/'
libgda/gda-enum-types.h.orig > libgda/gda-enum-types.h
solution:   ??? (fix wherever this file was generated)
status:     to be fixed

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file:       win32/libgda_graph-3.0.la
            win32/libgda_handlers-3.0.la
problem:    this files are empty (size = 0 bytes)
            judging from the output dump below these files are based on
dummy.la
            which is shipped as an empty file
            also note that at this point during the compilation the DLLs
have not been generated yet
            (libgda_graph-3.0-3.dll and libgda_handlers-3.0-3.dll)
solution:   ???
status:     to be fixed
dump:

make[1]: Entering directory `/c/temp/libgda-2.99.4/win32'
mkdir -p .libs
dlltool --output-lib=.libs/libgda_graph-3.0.dll.a
--dllname=libgda_graph-3.0-3.dll --input-def=./libgda_graph-3.0.def
sed -e s!%DLL%!libgda_graph-3.0-3! -e s!%LIB%!libgda_graph-3.0! -e
s!%PFX%!/usr/local! < ./dummy.la > libgda_graph-3.0.la
mkdir -p .libs
dlltool --output-lib=.libs/libgda_handlers-3.0.dll.a
--dllname=libgda_handlers-3.0-3.dll
--input-def=./libgda_handlers-3.0.def
sed -e s!%DLL%!libgda_handlers-3.0-3! -e s!%LIB%!libgda_handlers-3.0! -e
s!%PFX%!/usr/local! < ./dummy.la > libgda_handlers-3.0.la
make[1]: Leaving directory `/c/temp/libgda-2.99.4/win32'
.
.
.
make[2]: Entering directory `/c/temp/libgda-2.99.4/libgda'
/bin/sh ../libtool --tag=CC --mode=link gcc
-I/usr/local/include/glib-2.0 -DLIBGDA_WIN32 -Duint=guint
-L/usr/local/lib/glib-2.0 -o libgda-3.0.la -rpath /usr/local/lib
-version-info 3:0:0 -no-undefined gda-enum-types.lo  gda-blob-op.lo
gda-client.lo gda-column.lo gda-column-index.lo gda-command.lo
gda-config.lo gda-connection.lo gda-connection-event.lo
gda-data-handler.lo gda-data-model-array.lo gda-data-model-row.lo
gda-data-model.lo gda-data-model-filter-sql.lo gda-data-model-hash.lo
gda-data-model-import.lo gda-data-model-index.lo gda-data-model-iter.lo
gda-data-model-query.lo gda-data-access-wrapper.lo gda-data-proxy.lo
gda-dict-aggregate.lo gda-dict.lo gda-dict-constraint.lo
gda-dict-database.lo gda-dict-field.lo gda-dict-function.lo
gda-dict-table.lo gda-dict-type.lo gda-dict-reg-queries.lo
gda-dict-reg-types.lo gda-dict-reg-aggregates.lo
gda-dict-reg-functions.lo gda-entity.lo gda-entity-field.lo
gda-graphviz.lo gda-init.lo gda-log.lo gda-marshal.lo gda-object.lo
gda-object-ref.lo gda-parameter.lo gda-parameter-list.lo
gda-quark-list.lo gda-query.lo gda-query-condition.lo
gda-query-field-agg.lo gda-query-field-all.lo gda-query-field.lo
gda-query-field-field.lo gda-query-field-func.lo
gda-query-field-value.lo gda-query-join.lo gda-query-object.lo
gda-query-parsing.lo gda-query-target.lo gda-referer.lo gda-renderer.lo
gda-row.lo gda-server-operation.lo gda-server-provider.lo
gda-server-provider-extra.lo gda-threader.lo gda-transaction-status.lo
gda-util.lo gda-value.lo gda-xml-storage.lo
sql-transaction/libgda_sql_transaction-3.0.la
sql-delimiter/libgda_sql_delimiter-3.0.la ../libsql/libgdasql-3.0.la
../win32/libgda_graph-3.0.la ../win32/libgda_handlers-3.0.la
-L/usr/local/lib -lgobject-2.0 -lgthread-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -lglib-2.0
-lintl -liconv -lxml2
libtool: link: `../win32/libgda_graph-3.0.la' is not a valid libtool
archive
make[2]: *** [libgda-3.0.la] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/c/temp/libgda-2.99.4/libgda'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/c/temp/libgda-2.99.4/libgda'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

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For this last issue I have no workaround yet.
Can anybody give me an idea why this happens or where I can look to find
the root of the problem?
Also if anybody knows how to get me back on my way to compile/link
libgda anyway I would be grateful.

The second and third issue are probably things that need to be fixed in
the configure script, but I don't know very well how to change the
autoconf settings for this.

Any feedback is welcome,
Regards
    Brecht