Re: [Plplot-general] MinGW compilation failed on Windows

[H Xu <xu...@gm...>]

On 2011/10/5 12:34, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> On 2011-10-05 11:37+0800 H Xu wrote:
>
>> When use "mingw32-make VERBOSE=1" to compile, the following message is
>> output:
>>
>>
>> "C:\Program Files\CMake 2.8\bin\cmake.exe" -E remove -f
>> CMakeFiles\plplotd.dir/objects.a
>> C:\MinGW\bin\ar.exe cr CMakeFiles\plplotd.dir/objects.a
>> @CMakeFiles\plplotd.dir\objects1.rsp
>> C:\MinGW\bin\gcc.exe -shared -o ..\dll\libplplotd.dll
>> -Wl,--out-implib,..\dll\libplplotd.dll.a -Wl,--major-imag
>> e-version,11,--minor-image-version,0 -Wl,--whole-archive
>> CMakeFiles\plplotd.dir/objects.a -Wl,--no-whole-archive ..
>> \dll\libcsirocsa.dll.a ..\dll\libqsastime.dll.a -lkernel32 -luser32
>> -lgdi32 -lwinspool -lshell32 -lole32 -loleaut32
>> -luuid -lcomdlg32 -ladvapi32
>> Creating library file: ..\dll\libplplotd.dll.a
>> CMakeFiles\plplotd.dir/objects.a(plcore.c.obj):plcore.c:(.text+0x6caf):
>> undefined reference to `lt_dlmakeresident'
>> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>> mingw32-make[2]: *** [dll/libplplotd.dll] Error 1
>>
>> Does anyone know what is the problem?
>
> Hi Hong:
>
> Thanks very much for your report which is an extremely important one
> in my opinion.
>
> The issue occurs in src/plcore.c when we call lt_dlmakeresident. That
> call was put in during the last release cycle by another developer and
> me to fix another problem. But we completely missed the fact this
> function has not been implemented in ltdl_win32.c, which is the
> libltdl replacement that we use just for Windows. Doh!
>
> I think this bug means that 5.9.8 will not work on any Windows
> platform. I am not happy that we missed this issue to start with, but
> I am even less happy that our Windows testing of this release fell
> down so badly, but there it is. We will try to do a lot better for our
> further releases!
>
> Could you try the attached patch, please, to see if that solves the
> issue? It implements lt_dlmakeresident in ltdl_win32.c, but as a
> no-op. Later, we will probably want to actually implement a
> lt_dlmakeresident in ltdl_win32.c that does what the libltdl Linux
> version does, but this patch is at least a start down that trail, and
> should be good enough for now since it should just give the same
> Windows platform behaviour as for 5.9.7.
>

Thanks for the patch. This patch has solved this problem on my Windows.

Hong