Re: [Vala] why valac says "error: Failed to execute child process (Exec format error)"

[oyster <lepto python gmail com>]

yeah, uninstall and reinstall pkg-config solve this problem. now valac
can produce EXE on my sys2. Thank you all.

2016-06-22 16:02 GMT+08:00 Al Thomas <astavale yahoo co uk>:
> ________________________________
> From: oyster <lepto python gmail com>
> Sent: Wednesday, 22 June 2016, 2:05
> Subject: Re: [Vala] why valac says "error: Failed to execute child process
> (Exec format error)"
>
> I have to do these "export operation" every time when I run msys2
> since I don't know how to let msys2 do this automaticaly yet
> [code]
> export LANG=en
> export PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/opt/bin:/mingw64/bin
> export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$PKG_CONFIG_PATH:/mingw64/lib/pkgconfig
> [/code]
>
> https://github.com/ghcjs/ghcjs/wiki/Preparing-the-Windows-build-environment
> suggests editing .bashrc in your MSYS2 home directory to set the variables.
>
>
> mingw-w64-x86_64-pkg-config seems to be same with what I have
> installed with "pacman -S pkg-config"
> [code]
> $ pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-pkg-config
> error: duplicated database entry 'curl'
> error: duplicated database entry 'filesystem'
> error: duplicated database entry 'libcurl'
> warning: mingw-w64-x86_64-pkg-config-0.29.1-1 is up to date -- reinstalling
> resolving dependencies...
> looking for conflicting packages...
>
> Packages (1) mingw-w64-x86_64-pkg-config-0.29.1-1
>
> Total Installed Size:  1.32 MiB
> Net Upgrade Size:      0.00 MiB
> [/code]
>
> You should probably uninstall first:
> pacman -R pkg-config
> Also https://sourceforge.net/p/msys2/wiki/MSYS2%20installation/
> advises "Sometimes a package upgrade fails with failed to commit transaction
> (conflicting files) and some-pkg: /path/to/some/file exists in filesystem.
> If you're sure you didn't put the offending files there manually, move or
> delete the files and start the upgrade again."
>
>
>
> $ echo $PKG_CONFIG_PATH
> /usr/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/share/pkgconfig:/lib/pkgconfig:/mingw64/lib/pkgconfig
>
> $ ls  /mingw64/lib/pkgconfig/go*.pc
> /mingw64/lib/pkgconfig/gobject-2.0.pc
> /mingw64/lib/pkgconfig/gobject-introspection-1.0.pc
> /mingw64/lib/pkgconfig/gobject-introspection-no-export-1.0.pc
>
> [/code]
>
> The problem identified from the link below was one version of pkg-config
> wasn't
> finding the right path. You could also try setting PKG_CONFIG_PATH to just
> /mingw64/lib/pkgconfig
>
>
> 2016-06-22 0:32 GMT+08:00 Al Thomas <astavale yahoo co uk>:
> > This comment (
> >
> > https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stack/issues/377#issuecomment-118182127
> > )
> > says "I should be using the package mingw-w64-x86_64-pkg-config instead of
> > pkg-config"