Re: [Mingw-users] Problems with building elfutils-libelf

[Greg C. <gch...@sb...>]

On 2007-12-27 07:46Z, Indraneel Mukherjee wrote:
>
> I'm an absolute newbie in the MinGW world. I'm trying to use
> elfutils-libelf to compile my app for Windows.

Are you aware that msw is a non-ELF platform?

> Build is failing and
> i'm clueless as the error message is not very clear to me.
[...]
> Making all in lib
> make[2]: Entering directory `C:/msys/1.0/home/indraneelm/elfutils-0.131/lib'
> gcc -D_GNU_SOURCE -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I./../libelf -I..   -fpic
> -Wall -Wshadow -Werror -Wunused -Wextra  -g -O2 -MT xstrndup.o -MD -MP
> -MF .deps/xstrndup.Tpo -c -o xstrndup.o xstrndup.c
> xstrndup.c:1: warning: -fpic ignored for target (all code is position
> independent)
> make[2]: *** [xstrndup.o] Error 1

'-fpic' produces a warning because it's ignored for msw.
'-Werror' treats that warning as an error, so 'make' stops.