Bug #652
windres and ranlib not detected when cross-compiling
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Description
The mingw compiler provided with CYGWIN is called with i686-w64-mingw32 prefix.
The configure script is not able to detect windres and runlib here (but in my opinion it happens also with MSYS2): I think that you should replace AC_PATH_PROG with AC_PATH_TOOL in configure.ac, when it tries to check these two tools (lines 146-147).
I did this easy change, I regenerated configure and now it works fine.
Sincerely,
History
#1
Updated by John Lindgren over 8 years ago
Updated by - Status changed from New to Rejected
We do not support Cygwin.
#2
Updated by Carlo Bramini over 8 years ago
Updated by John Lindgren wrote:
We do not support Cygwin.
Excuse me... my intention was not to ask a strict support for CYGWIN, probably I did a mistake in my request. What I wanted to say is that using AC_PATH_PROG instead of AC_PATH_TOOL for testing the presence of a tool is wrong, independently by the fact that it is running on CYGWIN, linux, Mac, etc.
Sincerely.
#3
Updated by John Lindgren over 8 years ago
- Subject changed from winres and runlib not detected. to windres and ranlib not detected when cross-compiling
- Category set to win32
- Status changed from Rejected to Closed
- Target version set to 3.8
- % Done changed from 0 to 100
- Affects version 3.7.2 added
Okay, I see the difference now, AC_PATH_TOOL is needed for cross-compiling.
#4
Updated by Carlo Bramini over 8 years ago
John Lindgren wrote:
Okay, I see the difference now, AC_PATH_TOOL is needed for cross-compiling.
Thank you for the fix.
It escaped to my attention that also AR needs to be tested with AC_PATH_TOOL because it's part of binutils. Perhaps I did not noticed it because AR from CYGWIN and AR from MINGW produce the same files, but it may be possible that it won't work with different architectures. I do not know if it could cause an error in some conditions, however I report it here as reminder.
#5
Updated by John Lindgren over 8 years ago
Fixed.
