Re: build problems for clisp 2.30 and msvc6

[Arseny S. <am...@ic...>]

Hello Christian,

Thursday, January 02, 2003, 5:13:03 PM, you wrote:

> i am trying to build clisp 2.30 under windows 2000 with msvc6. i am running
> into a few problems and would like to ask if somebody knows how to solve
> them?

> first of all i see at the top of the install instructions:
> 0. Build a few recommended libraries: libiconv and libsigsegv.
>    - GNU libsigsegv (highly recommended for C stack overflow detection),
>    - GNU libiconv (for more character set conversions).

> these two libraries do not build out of the box for msvc6 but finally i
> managed to build the two libraries. but how do i integrate them into the
> clisp project? probably i have to modify the makefile?? and set a few
> #define ??

Strange, I had no problems with them. Maybe you didn't set
enviroinment variables ? You may use a batch like this to not pollute
global enviroinment (modify your vcvars.bat from vc installation)

== vc.bat ==
SET x=y
SET path=zzz
%1 %2 %3 %4 %5 etc
============

so then you can call 'vc nmake -f Makefile.msvc'

> then i wanted to point out that i had to modify the makefile because the
> MSVCDIR =
> path is hardcoded in the file. i think one could also use the MSDEVDIR
> environment variable?
MSVCDIR fits better, but note the forward slashes.

> next i had to install the UnxUtils from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/
> because the build depends on sed.
Yes, it is worth to have them anyway.

> and finally i run into the following problem:
> spvw.obj : error LNK2001: Nichtaufgeloestes externes Symbol _SP_bound
> lisp.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 1 unaufgeloeste externe Verweise
> NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'cl' : Rueckgabe-Code '0x2'
> Stop.

Here I need help too ;) When building with libsigsegv this
problem doesn't appear. To build with another options makefile should be
regenerated in a unix or cygwin enviroinment - it is the general rule.
But since 2.30 and for now there's no way to include libiconv and
libsigsegv in makefile. I reported it already 15 Sep 2002.

Once Makefile is good, you need just to copy sigsegv.h and sigsegv.lib
into src directory.

I believe I had hacked my Makefile by hand - removed -DNO_GIGSEGV and
added sigsegv.lib to LIBS. I don't remember how I have got it :-(

There are also two new problems with current CVS makefile:

1. intparam.h and floatparam.h depend on init. But they cannot be
generated on windows.

2. $(RMRF) doesn't delete directory 'data' and I can't see how it can.
I can write a batch file using del and rmdir , but it wouldn't be
compatible with unix rm anyway. I suggest to use 'rm' - once we use
sed on windows, why not to use rm ?

As it comes to clisp makefiles I feel uncertain, I'm afraid to break
it. It is generated by shell scripts which I don't understand well.

-- 
Best regards,
 Arseny