[flext] autotools builders - flext and gnu/windows

[dmotd]

hi thomas,

updating you on mingw and cygwin.

the bad news is that neither environment is properly building the flext 
core.

firstly, i had to hack configure.ac a little (the windows specific parts 
were not getting set).

mingw (gcc 4.5.2):
with both your buildsys (cmd prompt) and autoconf (msys shell), mingw 
will build all the static libs, but fails at the linker stage when 
building the dynamic library, with a bunch of undefined references (see 
attachment).

i have attempted to encourage the build further by passing linker flags 
(-Wl,--as-needed and -Wl,--no-undefined *plus numerous 
others/combinations*) but nothing seems to make it budge. i'm not sure 
if the compiler is being pedantic or i'm just not understanding something.

cygwin (gcc 3.4.4)
cygwin breaks with your buildsys due to what appears to be an issue with 
the environment (see attachment). with autoconf it acts much like mingw 
- it can successfully build static libs but fails to make the shared 
dll, a few more undefined references than with mingw (see attachment).

i feel like i've exhausted the internet for a solution, but hopefully 
it's something simple that i've overlooked.

i'm compiling against miller's latest 0.43-0 source/binaries, which 
still comes packaged pd.dll and pthreads headers.

tested on both a win2k and winxp in virtualized session. (slow and 
frustrating!)

can you shed any light?

cheers,
dmotd

On 03/31/2011 11:20 AM, dmotd wrote:
> On 03/31/2011 06:05 AM, Thomas Grill wrote:
>> Hi,
>> i should have told you that with my short tests last week i already
>> came to the same findings.
>> I'll try to manage the OS X side of things, but linux and cygwin
>> testing would be a very valuable contribution.
>> thanks again,
>> gr~~~
>
> okay. i've found an old win2k virtual image, running it in virtualbox
> with both cygwin and mingw environments.. i'll conduct some tests,
> obviously pd only.
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