[Mingw-users] hi, got some problems with locating mingw headers

[Manoa N. <mon...@gm...>]

I have followed instructions from all of the above sites:

http://www.mingw.org/MinGWiki/index.php/GettingStarted
http://www.mingw.org/MinGWiki/index.php/RealDumbQuickstart
http://www.mingw.org/MinGWiki/index.php/SmartQuickStart

and have yet to manage a successful compilation of a program as a
result of inability to find some very basic header files, I have
unpacked all of the above packages to a directory:

binutils-mingw32-2.17.tar.gz
freetype-mingw32-2.2.1.tar.gz
gcc-mingw32-4.2.0-r120001.tar.gz
mingw-runtime-3.11.tar.gz
msys-autoconf-2.59.tar.bz2
msys-automake-1.8.2.tar.bz2
w32api-3.8.tar.gz

then installed Msys and DTK, which do work fine, however when I tried
to compile some program (MPlayer-win32 from
http://oss.netfarm.it/mplayer-win32.php) I have received this very
simple error:

Detected operating system: MINGW32
Detected host architecture: i386
Checking for cc version ... not found
Checking for gcc version ... 4.1.2, ok
Checking for host cc ... gcc
Checking for cross compilation ... no
TOOLS/cpuinfo.c:5:19: error: stdio.h: No such file or directory
TOOLS/cpuinfo.c:6:22: error: sys/time.h: No such file or directory
TOOLS/cpuinfo.c:7:20: error: stdlib.h: No such file or directory
TOOLS/cpuinfo.c:8:20: error: string.h: No such file or directory
TOOLS/cpuinfo.c:9:20: error: unistd.h: No such file or directory
TOOLS/cpuinfo.c:12:23: error: sys/timeb.h: No such file or directory
TOOLS/cpuinfo.c:13: warning: 'struct timeval' declared inside parameter list
TOOLS/cpuinfo.c:13: warning: its scope is only this definition or
declaration, w                                             hich is
probably not what you want
TOOLS/cpuinfo.c: In function 'gettimeofday':
TOOLS/cpuinfo.c:14: error: storage size of 'timebuffer' isn't known
TOOLS/cpuinfo.c:16: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
TOOLS/cpuinfo.c:17: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
TOOLS/cpuinfo.c:33:22: error: inttypes.h: No such file or directory
TOOLS/cpuinfo.c: At top level:
TOOLS/cpuinfo.c:68: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or
'__attribute__' befo                                             re
'rdtsc'
TOOLS/cpuinfo.c: In function 'brandname':
TOOLS/cpuinfo.c:80: error: 'NULL' undeclared (first use in this function)
TOOLS/cpuinfo.c:80: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
TOOLS/cpuinfo.c:80: error: for each function it appears in.)
TOOLS/cpuinfo.c:91: warning: return from incompatible pointer type
TOOLS/cpuinfo.c: In function 'main':
TOOLS/cpuinfo.c:115: error: 'NULL' undeclared (first use in this function)
TOOLS/cpuinfo.c:115: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
TOOLS/cpuinfo.c:127: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of
built-in func                                             tion
'printf'
TOOLS/cpuinfo.c:252: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of
built-in func                                             tion
'strstr'
TOOLS/cpuinfo.c:299: error: 'int64_t' undeclared (first use in this function)
TOOLS/cpuinfo.c:299: error: expected ';' before 'tsc_start'
TOOLS/cpuinfo.c:300: error: storage size of 'tv_start' isn't known
TOOLS/cpuinfo.c:300: error: storage size of 'tv_end' isn't known
TOOLS/cpuinfo.c:303: error: 'tsc_start' undeclared (first use in this function)
TOOLS/cpuinfo.c:304: warning: passing argument 1 of 'gettimeofday'
from incompat                                             ible pointer
type
TOOLS/cpuinfo.c:310: error: 'tsc_end' undeclared (first use in this function)
TOOLS/cpuinfo.c:311: warning: passing argument 1 of 'gettimeofday'
from incompat                                             ible pointer
type
TOOLS/cpuinfo.c:313: error: request for member 'tv_sec' in something
not a struc                                             ture or union
TOOLS/cpuinfo.c:313: error: request for member 'tv_sec' in something
not a struc                                             ture or union
TOOLS/cpuinfo.c:314: error: request for member 'tv_usec' in something
not a stru                                             cture or union
TOOLS/cpuinfo.c:314: error: request for member 'tv_usec' in something
not a stru                                             cture or union

which is quite obvious that mingw is unable to find basic headers, the
strange of all things is the fact that those headers are exactly where
they are supposed to be: /mingw/include according to the mount point
specified in MSYS's fstab file, in fact a similar error occurs when I
have tried to compile blackbox for windows aka BBlean, in which case
it also it not able to find the files...

I have checked and apperantly have found (by hex search/edit) inside
the gcc.exe files that some directory/drive names appear there and
have attempted to fix them (those reported by --print-search-dirs)
unfortunately with no success, I have also attempted installation of
mingw-5.1.3 and then overwriting files of the gcc-4.2.0 on it, and
that too did not work.

the only way I got a program to somehow find those header files is by
calling the configure script process while being inside the
/mingw/include directory, which is obviously wrong, and also does not
seem to work right.

can anyone advise on what can be done to fix the situation ?

I have been able to work with gcc 4.2.0 before but I have forgotten
how I have done that and right now I have no idea where to start, I've
even got as far as hex edition of gcc.exe but apperantly nothing I do
solves the problem, where do I define for gcc.exe or cc1.exe to find
it's header files automatically ?