[gambit-list] Problem Compiling Gambit on Windows 7 with mingw

Bob Coleman bobcolem at yahoo.com
Fri Jan 24 10:58:59 EST 2014


Greetings,

I ran into problems compiling the latest version of Gambit on Windows 7 using mingw and msys.  When I could not compile the released version 4.7.1 I tried the github master (revision 4dacc59db8fb9c0fbedd32da0fe9801d466f7404) with the same results.  I am using the latest release of mingw gcc (4.8.1).

The configure script completes successfully and I have tried it with and without the --enable-single-host flag.

When running "make from-scratch" the build fails with the error below:


<Snip> ...
gcc -D_WINDOWS  -Wno-unused -Wno-write-strings -O1 -fno-math-errno -fschedule-ins
ns2 -fno-trapping-math -fno-strict-aliasing -fwrapv -fno-keep-inline-dllexport -f
no-common -mieee-fp    -I"../include"  -o "gsi.exe"    _gsi.o _gsi_.o "../lib/lib
gambc.a" -lws2_32 libgambcgsi.a
../lib/libgambc.a(os.o):os.c:(.text+0x70d): undefined reference to `getaddrinfo'
../lib/libgambc.a(os.o):os.c:(.text+0x78b): undefined reference to `freeaddrinfo'

../lib/libgambc.a(os.o):os.c:(.text+0x7dd): undefined reference to `freeaddrinfo'

../lib/libgambc.a(os.o):os.c:(.text+0x88a): undefined reference to `freeaddrinfo'

../lib/libgambc.a(os.o):os.c:(.text+0x8d2): undefined reference to `freeaddrinfo'

c:/apps/mingw/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.8.1/../../../../mingw32/bin/ld.exe: ../lib
/libgambc.a(os.o): bad reloc address 0x14 in section `.data'
c:/apps/mingw/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.8.1/../../../../mingw32/bin/ld.exe: final
link failed: Invalid operation
collect2.exe: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [gsi.exe] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/c/Users/lahsp/Downloads/gambit/gambit-master/gsi'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/c/Users/lahsp/Downloads/gambit/gambit-master'
make: *** [from-scratch] Error 2


After googling I found other people with similar issues when using ws2tcpip in this configuration, although not related to Gambit.  I tried adding "#define _WIN32_WINNT 0x0501" to os.h at line 1179 just below the include for windows.h to make sure a compatible windows version is being set.  This caused the build to fail earlier with complaints of repeatedly defining _WIN32_WINNT.

The pre-build version of Gambit 4.7.1 works well for me.  I am able to build executables from scheme with no issues, so I don't think gcc is having problems locating the includes or libraries.

Has anyone else ran into this issue building Gambit in this configuration?

Are there any windows specific options I should be passing to configure?

Thanks for your help.
Bob
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