[Mingw-notify] [ mingw-Bugs-1784372 ] Under Vista many files are not found

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Bugs item #1784372, was opened at 2007-08-29 13:56
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Submitted By: Joachim Eibl (joachim99)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Under Vista many files are not found

Initial Comment:
I installed MinGW-5.1.3.exe on Vista Home Premium and for comparison on XP.
I tried to build KDiff3-0.9.92 (kdiff3.sf.net) for Qt4. (I'm the author.)
On XP everything works as expected.
When building the kdiff3.exe on Vista there is the problem that windres.exe tells me:
gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `cc1': No such file or directory

After adding the path "C:\MinGW\libexec\gcc\mingw32\3.4.2" I can finish compiling and linking.

Then I proceed to building the dll diff_ext_for_kdiff3.
Again under XP it works fine but under Vista the final step from dllwrap.exe is the linking via this command:

 ld --dll -Bdynamic -e _DllMainCRTStartup@12 -o diff_ext_for_kdiff3.dll -s dllcrt2.o crtbegin.o -base-file ./cca04840.base -e _DllMainCRTStartup@12 --image-base 0x62A40000 class_factory.o diff_ext.o server.o diff_ext_for_kdiff3.res -luuid -lole32 -lstdc++ -lmingw32 -lgcc -lmoldname -lmingwex -lmsvcrt -luser32 -lkernel32 -ladvapi32 -lshell32 -lmingw32 -lgcc -lmoldname -lmingwex -lmsvcrt crtend.o

Result:
ld: dllcrt2.o: No such file: No such file or directory


I add the full path names for everything and get it to  link via this command:

ld --dll -Bdynamic -e _DllMainCRTStartup@12 -o diff_ext_for_kdiff3.dll -s -Lc:\mingw\lib -LC:\MinGW\lib\gcc\mingw32\3.4.2 c:\mingw\lib\dllcrt2.o C:\MinGW\lib\gcc\mingw32\3.4.2\crtbegin.o --base-file ./cca04224.base -e _DllMainCRTStartup@12 --image-base 0x62A40000 class_factory.o diff_ext.o server.o diff_ext_for_kdiff3.res -luuid -lole32 -lstdc++ -lmingw32 -lgcc -lmoldname -lmingwex -lmsvcrt -luser32 -lkernel32 -ladvapi32 -lshell32 -lmingw32 -lgcc -lmoldname -lmingwex -lmsvcrt C:\MinGW\lib\gcc\mingw32\3.4.2\crtend.o

Why are ld and windres not able to figure out the paths for themselves under Vista as they can under XP?

Best regards,
Joachim

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Comment By: Jim Pattee (jimp03)
Date: 2008-02-09 09:44

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I have the same problem with "ld" not finding files on Vista. I have MinGW
installed in C:\Programs\MinGW. I was able to compile by creating a
directory C:\MinGW\lib (the default install path) and copying the missing
files to it. People having MinGW installed in the default directory might
not have this problem. The files currently included in C:\MinGW\lib are
crt2.o, crtbegin.o, crtend.o, and dllcrt2.o. Like Joachim said, there was
no problem under XP???


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