Re: cygwin build

[Thomas Wolff <towo@towo.net>]

Am 03.08.2023 um 15:12 schrieb Jon Turney:
> On 03/08/2023 09:21, Thomas Wolff wrote:
>> Am 02.08.2023 um 10:09 schrieb Corinna Vinschen:
>>> On Aug  2 08:36, Thomas Wolff wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Am 01.08.2023 um 23:27 schrieb Corinna Vinschen:
>>>>> On Aug  1 23:05, Thomas Wolff wrote:
>>>>>> I took some of the latest cygwin snapshots (by the way, there are 
>>>>>> no newer
>>>>>> ones on the snapshots page):
>>>>> Snapshots are no longer produced.  You should download the latest
>>>>> test versions via setup.
>>>> So what if I need an older version?
>>> It's all documented:
>>>
>>> https://cygwin.com/git.html
>>> https://cygwin.com/faq.html#faq.programming.building-cygwin
>> Thanks. Actually package mingw zlib was missing (when I installed it, 
>> it got mistargeted to my parallel test installation).
>> It now worked, kind of, with some build errors after producing the dll.
>
> Nobody can take any useful action about those "build errors" if you 
> keep them secret.
>
Sure, I just mentioned it and didn't post details as it wasn't essential 
for the discussed issue. Anyway, here are the final error message I 
often encounter:

make[5]: Entering directory 
'/cygdrive/c/tmp/newlib-cygwin/build/x86_64-pc-cygwin/winsup/utils'
   CXXLD    dumper.exe
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-cygwin/11/../../../../x86_64-pc-cygwin/bin/ld: 
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-cygwin/11/../../../../lib/libbfd.a(compress.o): 
in function `decompress_contents':
/usr/src/debug/binutils-2.41-1/bfd/compress.c:514:(.text+0x20d): 
undefined reference to `ZSTD_decompress'
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-cygwin/11/../../../../x86_64-pc-cygwin/bin/ld: 
/usr/src/debug/binutils-2.41-1/bfd/compress.c:516:(.text+0x215): 
undefined reference to `ZSTD_isError'
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-cygwin/11/../../../../x86_64-pc-cygwin/bin/ld: 
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-cygwin/11/../../../../lib/libbfd.a(compress.o): 
in function `bfd_compress_section_contents':
/usr/src/debug/binutils-2.41-1/bfd/compress.c:653:(.text+0x11e4): 
undefined reference to `ZSTD_compress'
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-cygwin/11/../../../../x86_64-pc-cygwin/bin/ld: 
/usr/src/debug/binutils-2.41-1/bfd/compress.c:658:(.text+0x11f1): 
undefined reference to `ZSTD_isError'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[5]: *** [Makefile:603: dumper.exe] Error 1
make[5]: Leaving directory 
'/cygdrive/c/tmp/newlib-cygwin/build/x86_64-pc-cygwin/winsup/utils'
make[4]: *** [Makefile:872: all-recursive] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory 
'/cygdrive/c/tmp/newlib-cygwin/build/x86_64-pc-cygwin/winsup/utils'
make[3]: *** [Makefile:512: all] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory 
'/cygdrive/c/tmp/newlib-cygwin/build/x86_64-pc-cygwin/winsup/utils'
make[2]: *** [Makefile:395: all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory 
'/cygdrive/c/tmp/newlib-cygwin/build/x86_64-pc-cygwin/winsup'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:9464: all-target-winsup] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/cygdrive/c/tmp/newlib-cygwin/build'
make: *** [Makefile:883: all] Error 2