Re: Building gsl-1.14 with mingw64 in msys shell on MS Windows

["Brian Gladman" <brg@gladman.plus.com>]

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From: "Sisyphus" <sisyphus1@optusnet.com.au>
Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 12:58 PM
To: "gsl-discuss" <gsl-discuss@sourceware.org>
Subject: Building gsl-1.14 with mingw64 in msys shell on MS Windows

> Hi,
>
> I have Windows Vista64, and I was trying to build gsl-1.14 in the msys 
> shell using mingw64 (gcc-4.4.4).
>
> I started with:
>
> $ 
> ./configure --build=x86_64-w64-mingw32 --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32 --disable-shared 
>  --enable-static && make
>
> It ran for quite a long time - I was even starting to think it was going 
> to succeed. Eventually the 'make' step croaked with:
>
> make[2]: Entering directory `/c/_64/comp/gsl-1.14'
> /bin/sh ./libtool --tag=CC   --mode=compile 
> x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.     -g -O2 -MT 
> version.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/version.Tpo -c -o version.lo version.c
> libtool: compile:  x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -g -O2 -MT 
> version.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/version.Tpo -c version.c -o version.o
> mv -f .deps/version.Tpo .deps/version.Plo
> /bin/sh ./libtool --tag=CC   --mode=link 
> x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc  -g -O2 -version-info 15:0:15 -no-undefined  -o 
> libgsl.la -rpath /usr/local/lib version.lo block/libgslblock.la 
> blas/libgslblas.la bspline/libgslbspline.la complex/libgslcomplex.la 
> cheb/libgslcheb.la dht/libgsldht.la diff/libgsldiff.la 
> deriv/libgslderiv.la eigen/libgsleigen.la err/libgslerr.la 
> fft/libgslfft.la fit/libgslfit.la histogram/libgslhistogram.la 
> ieee-utils/libgslieeeutils.la integration/libgslintegration.la 
> interpolation/libgslinterpolation.la linalg/libgsllinalg.la 
> matrix/libgslmatrix.la min/libgslmin.la monte/libgslmonte.la 
> multifit/libgslmultifit.la multimin/libgslmultimin.la 
> multiroots/libgslmultiroots.la ntuple/libgslntuple.la 
> ode-initval/libgslodeiv.la permutation/libgslpermutation.la 
> combination/libgslcombination.la multiset/libgslmultiset.la 
> poly/libgslpoly.la qrng/libgslqrng.la randist/libgslrandist.la 
> rng/libgslrng.la roots/libgslroots.la siman/libgslsiman.la 
> sort/libgslsort.la specfunc/libgslspecfunc.la 
> statistics/libgslstatistics.la sum/libgslsum.la sys/libgslsys.la 
> test/libgsltest.la utils/libutils.la vector/libgslvector.la 
> cdf/libgslcdf.la wavelet/libgslwavelet.la cblas/libgslcblas.la -lm
> libtool: link: (cd .libs/libgsl.lax/libgslblock.a && ar x 
> "/c/_64/comp/gsl-1.14/block/.libs/libgslblock.a")
> libtool: link: object name conflicts in archive: 
> .libs/libgsl.lax/libgslblock.a
> //c/_64/comp/gsl-1.14/block/.libs/libgslblock.a
> make[2]: *** [libgsl.la] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/c/_64/comp/gsl-1.14'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/c/_64/comp/gsl-1.14'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
> Does anyone here know what's required to get it to build successfully on 
> this platform ? I can build a 32-bit library on the same PC, but I'd 
> really like to have a 64-bit build if such is possible. Unfortunately, the 
> error message doesn't mean anything to me.

Not with mingw64. But I provide a 64-bit build of GSL-1.14 using Visual 
Studio 2010 here:

http://gladman.plushost.co.uk/oldsite/computing/gsl-1.14-vc10.zip

     Brian Gladman