Glib-Windows Compilation Issues

[Jake Goulding <goulding vivisimo com>]

Hey all:

I've had some trouble in compiling and subsequently using glib (2.8.6) 
on a Windows machine.

I am building using nmake and the MSVC toolset. My procedure is such:

unpack glib into a directory containing gettext and libiconv.
cd build/win32/dirent
nmake -f makefile.msc
cd ../../../
nmake -f makefile.msc

Then the trouble starts... I have gotten it to compile, and my patches 
are included here. The very bottom describes my current trouble.

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I had to make the following changes to work around differing level of 
indirection errors:

diff -r --unified glib-2.8.6/glib/gatomic.c gmod/glib/gatomic.c
--- glib-2.8.6/glib/gatomic.c   2005-12-17 07:26:54.000000000 -0500
+++ gmod/glib/gatomic.c 2006-03-15 10:27:21.907293400 -0500
@@ -514,9 +514,9 @@
                                  gint32    oldval,
                                  gint32    newval)
{
-  return (guint32)InterlockedCompareExchange ((PVOID*)atomic,
-                                              (PVOID)newval,
-                                              (PVOID)oldval) == oldval;
+  return (guint32)InterlockedCompareExchange (atomic,
+                                              newval,
+                                              oldval) == oldval;
}

gboolean
@@ -527,7 +527,7 @@
# if GLIB_SIZEOF_VOID_P != 4 /* no 32-bit system */
#  error "InterlockedCompareExchangePointer needed"
# else
-   return InterlockedCompareExchange (atomic, newval, oldval) == oldval;
+   return InterlockedCompareExchange ((volatile long *)atomic, 
(long)newval, (long)oldval) == (long)oldval;
# endif
}
#endif /* DEFINE_WITH_WIN32_INTERLOCKED */


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I also had to remove support for g_win32_ftruncate, as mingw has it 
defined, and I later want to link glib against mingw-compiled code:

diff -r --unified glib-2.8.6/glib/glib.symbols gmod/glib/glib.symbols
--- glib-2.8.6/glib/glib.symbols        2005-08-29 18:12:15.000000000 -0400
+++ gmod/glib/glib.symbols      2006-03-15 10:27:44.126612200 -0500
@@ -1243,7 +1243,6 @@
#if IN_FILE(__G_WIN32_H__)
#ifdef G_OS_WIN32
g_win32_error_message
-g_win32_ftruncate
g_win32_get_package_installation_directory PRIVATE
g_win32_get_package_installation_directory_utf8
g_win32_get_package_installation_subdirectory PRIVATE
diff -r --unified glib-2.8.6/glib/gwin32.h gmod/glib/gwin32.h
--- glib-2.8.6/glib/gwin32.h    2005-04-27 05:50:09.000000000 -0400
+++ gmod/glib/gwin32.h  2006-03-15 10:27:21.907293400 -0500
@@ -61,8 +63,13 @@
 * g_win32_. Or that was the idea at some time, but there is just one
 * of those:
 */
-gint           g_win32_ftruncate       (gint            f,
-                                        guint           size);
+
+/* Use supplied MinGW function */
+#define ftruncate g_win32_ftruncate
+
+ gint          g_win32_ftruncate       (gint            f,
+                                        guint           size);
+
#endif /* G_OS_WIN32 */

/* The MS setlocale uses locale names of the form "English_United





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And I also had to add the following changes to the makefiles, in order 
to build static versions of all 4 libraries:


diff -r --unified glib-2.8.6/glib/makefile.msc gmod/glib/makefile.msc
--- glib-2.8.6/glib/makefile.msc        2006-01-18 12:03:46.000000000 -0500
+++ gmod/glib/makefile.msc      2006-03-15 10:27:21.922918800 -0500
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@
# create a static libary
# static library can well have the real version number in the name
glib-2.8s.lib : $(glib_OBJECTS) gnulib\gnulib.lib
-       lib /out:glib-2.8s.lib $(glib_OBJECTS) gnulib\gnulib.lib
+       lib /out:glib-2.8s.lib $(glib_OBJECTS) gnulib\gnulib.lib 
$(DIRENT_LIBS)

libglib-2.0-0.dll : $(glib_OBJECTS) gnulib\gnulib.lib glib.def glib.res
       $(CC) $(CFLAGS) -LD -Fe$@ $(glib_OBJECTS) glib.res 
$(LIBICONV_LIBS) $(INTL_LIBS) \
diff -r --unified glib-2.8.6/gmodule/makefile.msc gmod/gmodule/makefile.msc
--- glib-2.8.6/gmodule/makefile.msc     2006-01-18 12:03:50.000000000 -0500
+++ gmod/gmodule/makefile.msc   2006-03-15 10:27:21.922918800 -0500
@@ -12,7 +12,8 @@

all : \
       gmoduleconf.h \
-       libgmodule-2.0-0.dll
+       libgmodule-2.0-0.dll \
+       gmodule-2.8s.lib

gmodule_OBJECTS = \
       gmodule.obj
@@ -23,6 +24,9 @@
gmodule.res : gmodule.rc
       rc -DBUILDNUMBER=0 -r -fo gmodule.res gmodule.rc

+gmodule-2.8s.lib : $(gmodule_OBJECTS)
+       lib /out:gmodule-2.8s.lib $(gmodule_OBJECTS)
+
libgmodule-2.0-0.dll : $(gmodule_OBJECTS) gmodule.def gmodule.res
       $(CC) $(CFLAGS) -LD -Fe$@ $(gmodule_OBJECTS) gmodule.res \
       ..\glib\glib-2.0.lib $(LDFLAGS) /implib:gmodule-2.0.lib 
/def:gmodule.def
diff -r --unified glib-2.8.6/gthread/makefile.msc gmod/gthread/makefile.msc
--- glib-2.8.6/gthread/makefile.msc     2006-01-18 12:03:52.000000000 -0500
+++ gmod/gthread/makefile.msc   2006-03-15 10:27:21.922918800 -0500
@@ -10,7 +10,8 @@
INCLUDES = -FImsvc_recommended_pragmas.h -I .. -I . -I ..\glib
DEFINES = -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DG_LOG_DOMAIN=\"GThread\"
all : \
-       libgthread-2.0-0.dll
+       libgthread-2.0-0.dll \
+       gthread-2.8s.lib

gthread_OBJECTS = \
       gthread-impl.obj
@@ -21,6 +22,9 @@
gthread.res : gthread.rc
       rc -DBUILDNUMBER=0 -r -fo gthread.res gthread.rc

+gthread-2.8s.lib : $(gthread_OBJECTS)
+       lib /out:gthread-2.8s.lib $(gthread_OBJECTS)
+
libgthread-2.0-0.dll : $(gthread_OBJECTS) gthread.def gthread.res
       $(CC) $(CFLAGS) -LD -Fe$@ $(gthread_OBJECTS) gthread.res \
       ..\glib\glib-2.0.lib $(DEPCLIBS) $(LDFLAGS) 
/implib:gthread-2.0.lib /def:gthread.def


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All this gets me 4 static libraries (glib-2.8s.lib, gmodule-2.8s.lib, 
gobject-2.8s.lib, gthread-2.8s.lib).

However, the end result is that I am trying to compile wvWare, which 
ultimately complains with the following errors:

undefined reference to `__imp__g_thread_functions_for_glib_use'
undefined reference to `__imp__g_threads_got_initialized'
(repeated many times)

What could I possibly be doing wrong?

I did notice that inside gthread, gthread-win32.c does NOT get compiled, 
only gthread-impl.c. Does this seem right?

imp__g_thread_functions_for_glib_use does not seem to be used in any of 
the source files, indeed th eonly text file that does contain it is 
"gobject/libgobject-2.0-0.map".

Any and all help is appreciated!!!

-jake