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

["Sisyphus" <sisyphus1@optusnet.com.au>]

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.

Cheers,
Rob