Re: Cannot compile Pg 9.0.2 with MinGW under Windows

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: Pavel Golub <pavel@gf.microolap.com>
Cc: Pavel Golub <pavel@microolap.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-12-23T22:27:20Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

On 12/23/2010 07:11 AM, Pavel Golub wrote:
> Hello, Pgsql-bugs.
>
> Tried to use MinGw under windows to build client libraries at least.
> However failed on "./configure --withou-zlib" stage.
>
> Please find attached log file, stdout and stderr outputs.
>
> The main problem here I suppose is
> "configure: WARNING:<someheader>.h: present but cannot be compiled"
>
> Please five me advice on this.
> Thanks in advance


Your gcc doesn't look like others we have:

You have:

    gcc (GCC) 3.4.4 (msys special)
    Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
    This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There
    is NO
    warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
    PURPOSE.

    configure:3252: $? = 0
    configure:3259: gcc -v >&5
    Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-msys/3.4.4/specs
    Configured with: /home/cstrauss/build/gcc3/gcc-3.4.4/configure
    --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var
    --infodir=/share/info --mandir=/share/man --libexecdir=/lib
    --enable-languages=c,c++ --disable-nls --enable-threads=posix
    --enable-sjlj-exceptions --enable-hash-synchronization
    --enable-libstdcxx-debug --with-newlib
    Thread model: posix



Buildfarm narwhal has:

    gcc.exe (GCC) 3.4.2 (mingw-special)
    Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
    This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
    warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

    configure:3252: $? = 0
    configure:3259: gcc -v>&5
    Reading specs from c:/MinGW/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/3.4.2/specs
    Configured with: ../gcc/configure --with-gcc --with-gnu-ld --with-gnu-as --host=mingw32 --target=mingw32 --prefix=/mingw --enable-threads --disable-nls --enable-languages=c,c++,f77,ada,objc,java --disable-win32-registry --disable-shared --enable-sjlj-exceptions --enable-libgcj --disable-java-awt --without-x --enable-java-gc=boehm --disable-libgcj-debug --enable-interpreter --enable-hash-synchronization --enable-libstdcxx-debug
    Thread model: win32
    gcc version 3.4.2 (mingw-special)





Buildfarm frogmouth has:

    gcc.exe (GCC) 4.5.0
    Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
    This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
    warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

    configure:3252: $? = 0
    configure:3259: gcc -v>&5
    Using built-in specs.
    COLLECT_GCC=c:\mingw\bin\gcc.exe
    COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=c:/mingw/bin/../libexec/gcc/mingw32/4.5.0/lto-wrapper.exe
    Target: mingw32
    Configured with: ../gcc-4.5.0/configure --enable-languages=c,c++,ada,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --disable-sjlj-exceptions --with-dwarf2 --enable-shared --enable-libgomp --disable-win32-registry --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-version-specific-runtime-libs --disable-werror --build=mingw32 --prefix=/mingw
    Thread model: win32


    gcc version 4.5.0 (GCC)




cheers

andrew