Re: mingw cross tests missing DLLs - CROSS_BINDIR not in PATH

[Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca>]

On 2024-03-04 13:00, Jon Turney wrote:
> On 03/03/2024 22:29, Brian Inglis via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>> On 2024-03-03 14:39, Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>>> On 03/03/2024 16:48, Brian Inglis via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>>>> I am finding mingw package cross tests fail with missing DLLs - CROSS_BINDIR 
>>>> is not in the PATH.
>>>>
>>>> I now have to define src_test to run cygtest adding CROSS_BINDIR in the PATH.
>>>>
>>>> Is this likely to be upstream (e.g. gnulib) changes or cygport changes?
>>
>>> This is a shortcoming of cygport, in that you cannot just write "do the 
>>> standard src_(compile|install|test), but do this extra thing first (like 
>>> modifying PATH as you need in this case).
>>>
>>> (One approach to this I've though about would be to have a hook function (or 
>>> set of functions) which are called before each phase of operation, to allow 
>>> this)
>>
>> These test failures have been only in the latest upstream releases.
>> Previously no PATH fiddling was required.
>> For mingw64-x86_64-nghttp2 that was 2024-01-21.
>>
>> Why I asked if anyone noticed any cross build changes as for example in 
>> autotools, gnulib, or cygport?
> 
> I assumed that you were talking about "PATH needs to be set so that dependencies 
> of the built DLL can be loaded"
> 
> But, now I look, mingw64-x86_64-nghttp2 doesn't have any dependencies.
> 
> So, I'm not so sure. Maybe you just mean that the test harness can't locate the 
> just built DLL? That could well be an upstream change.
> 
> Maybe you could show the actual error?

Sorry I was not clearer.
In previous release build checks there were no issues.
In the latest release the test programs have a dependency on winpthreads and 
failed with popup dialogues:

main.exe - System Error ...
ALSO
failmalloc.exe - System Error
X
The code execution cannot proceed because
libwinpthread-1.dll was not found.
Reinstalling the program may fix this problem.

$ cygcheck -f /usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/bin/libwinpthread-1.dll
mingw64-x86_64-winpthreads-11.0.1-1

Similar result as:

$ cygcheck mingw64-x86_64-nghttp2-1.60.0-1.noarch/build/tests/{main,failmalloc}
cygcheck: track_down: could not find libwinpthread-1.dll

C:/.../usr/src/nghttp2/mingw64-x86_64-nghttp2/mingw64-x86_64-nghttp2-1.60.0-1.noarch/build/tests/main.exe
   C:/WINDOWS/system32/KERNEL32.dll
     C:/WINDOWS/system32/ntdll.dll
     C:/WINDOWS/system32/KERNELBASE.dll
   C:/WINDOWS/system32/msvcrt.dll

cygcheck: track_down: could not find libwinpthread-1.dll

C:/.../usr/src/nghttp2/mingw64-x86_64-nghttp2/mingw64-x86_64-nghttp2-1.60.0-1.noarch/build/tests/failmalloc.exe
   C:/WINDOWS/system32/KERNEL32.dll
     C:/WINDOWS/system32/ntdll.dll
     C:/WINDOWS/system32/KERNELBASE.dll
   C:/WINDOWS/system32/msvcrt.dll
$ PATH="/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/bin/:$PATH"	\
cygcheck mingw64-x86_64-nghttp2-1.60.0-1.noarch/build/tests/{main,failmalloc}
C:/.../usr/src/nghttp2/mingw64-x86_64-nghttp2/mingw64-x86_64-nghttp2-1.60.0-1.noarch/build/tests/main.exe
   C:/WINDOWS/system32/KERNEL32.dll
     C:/WINDOWS/system32/ntdll.dll
     C:/WINDOWS/system32/KERNELBASE.dll
   C:/WINDOWS/system32/msvcrt.dll
   C:/.../usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/bin/libwinpthread-1.dll

C:/.../usr/src/nghttp2/mingw64-x86_64-nghttp2/mingw64-x86_64-nghttp2-1.60.0-1.noarch/build/tests/failmalloc.exe
   C:/WINDOWS/system32/KERNEL32.dll
     C:/WINDOWS/system32/ntdll.dll
     C:/WINDOWS/system32/KERNELBASE.dll
   C:/WINDOWS/system32/msvcrt.dll
   C:/.../usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/bin/libwinpthread-1.dll

-- 
Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis              Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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