From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 70083 invoked by alias); 26 Oct 2019 21:16:18 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 70009 invoked by uid 89); 26 Oct 2019 21:16:17 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 spammy=i686, Eliot X-HELO: smtp-out-no.shaw.ca Received: from smtp-out-no.shaw.ca (HELO smtp-out-no.shaw.ca) (64.59.134.9) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sat, 26 Oct 2019 21:16:16 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.114] ([24.64.172.44]) by shaw.ca with ESMTP id OTPxihLezUIS2OTPyipzE4; Sat, 26 Oct 2019 15:16:14 -0600 Reply-To: Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca Subject: Re: Can you compile node.js under cygwin? To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <765cfcf8-1d6e-42ea-ed31-12296e9b23b2@cs.umass.edu> From: Brian Inglis Openpgp: preference=signencrypt Message-ID: Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2019 21:16:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.9.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <765cfcf8-1d6e-42ea-ed31-12296e9b23b2@cs.umass.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2019-10/txt/msg00165.txt.bz2 On 2019-10-26 08:09, Eliot Moss wrote: > On 10/25/2019 1:37 PM, Cary Lewis wrote: >> I tried to clone the repo, and after running configure, then make I got >> this error: >> >> make -C out BUILDTYPE=Release V=0 >>    touch 12396aa5d0c66cc1eba58d7550d4db5f74c0a51c.intermediate >> >> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/clewis/node/out/Release/lib.host:/home/clewis/node/out/Release/lib.target:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH; >> >> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH; cd ../.; mkdir -p tools/msvs/genfiles; "mc >> src/res/node_etw_provider.man -h tools/msvs/genfiles -r tools/msvs/genfiles" >> /bin/sh: mc src/res/node_etw_provider.man -h tools/msvs/genfiles -r >> tools/msvs/genfiles: No such file or directory >> make[1]: *** [node_etw.target.mk:17: >> 12396aa5d0c66cc1eba58d7550d4db5f74c0a51c.intermediate] Error 127 >> rm 12396aa5d0c66cc1eba58d7550d4db5f74c0a51c.intermediate >> make: *** [Makefile:101: node] Error 2 > > This program's configure is not cygwin-aware, apparently.  It sees something > that looks like Windows and it's heading toward msvs (Microsoft Visual Studio), > a Windows program, not a cygwin program. > > I tried configure --dest-os=linux, and that mostly worked, but assumes ELF > binaries are being used, but cygwin uses PE, not ELF (so that Windows can > run the binaries linked with the cygwin library / runtime).  So the openssl > assembly files failed.  Using configure --dest-os=linux --openssl-no-asm got > past that problem but fails when trying to find /usr/include/sys/syscall.h, > someting not provided under cygwin. > > I also tried not giving --dest-os (and it then wants to do the msvs stuff, > i.e., it treats it as Windows) and --dest-os=posix (which is what uname -a > reports under modern cygwin) to no avail. > > So IMO node's configure needs to be adjusted, but how to do that correctly > is beyond my knowledge or the time I can invest. Teach configure to recognize and use system types i686/x86_64-unknown-cygwin and build/host triplets i686/x86_64-pc-cygwin. -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada This email may be disturbing to some readers as it contains too much technical detail. Reader discretion is advised. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple