[flext] autotools builders - flext and gnu/windows

[dmotd]

thanks for the reply, i might cross-post to pd-dev and see if anyone 
else has encounted this.. i'm not the least bit familiar with windows 
environments anymore, and the gnu tools only seem to soothe the pain!

best wishes..
dmotd

On 04/04/2011 10:27 PM, Thomas Grill wrote:
> hi dmotd, many thanks for your efforts,
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> I can remember that problem - it is connected to the way how global
> variables (like garray_class, s_float etc.) in Pd are defined for the
> linker.
> I must have found a solution once....
>
>> 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).
>>
>
> The flext-build output seems to indicate a c++ namespace problem which
> should not be too hard to fix.
> The autoconf output seems different, probably a mixture of problems.
>
> i'm not sure if i can spare any time for that soon but it's good to know
> the weak spots.
>
> all the best,
> Thomas
>
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