How do i get gettext dev for mingw

[Patrick Spendrin]

Am 06.05.2013 15:14, schrieb DeveloperChris:
> Thanks Patrick
> 
> some notes below...
> 
> On 06/05/2013 4:17 AM, Patrick Spendrin wrote:
>> Am 05.05.2013 14:05, schrieb DeveloperChris:
>>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> When compiling mpir (my nemesis) I have run into YAP (yet another
>>> problem). My main issues are caused by an apparently buggy msys/sh.exe
>>> but not this time.
>>>
>>> I get undefined __printf__ errors when building the project, in
>>> particular when building yasm.
>>
>> Lol, I had those as well ;-)
>> the gettext library (libintl) is provided by the gettext package. To
>> make mpir compile, I edited the gettext package quite a lot and I
>> thought I had submitted that fix:
>> the problem is that libintl is not compiled completely, so the
>> replacement functions for printf and vprintf are not compiled in. in one
>> of the headers you will find that printf is redefined to __printf__ for
>> certain cases. What I did, was simply keeping those two functions as is
>> and modifying the ifdefs accordingly.
>> The patch seems to have been submitted on 2nd of may, so maybe you might
>> want to rebuild your gettext package: emerge -i gettext && emerge mpir.
> 
> Thanks that was successful
> 
> The next problem I ran in to was not being able to find libstdc++.dll.a
> 
> after much searching this link helped
> http://mingw.5.n7.nabble.com/libstdc-dll-a-does-not-exist-td20812.html
> 
> It appears the fix is still unresolved. but as LRN advised changing
> "library_names='libstdc++.dll.a'" in libstdc++.la to "library_names=''"
> did the trick.
> 
> using emerge --make mpir resulted in a completed build but not installed
> 
> I tried emerge --install mpir but had no joy it obviously ran make
> install but that didn't seem to do anything else so mpir was not put
> into the db. I couldnt see how to restart a failed build.
there are several options from the point you were on:
emerge does the following things (in that order):
fetch == downloading archives, checking out git/svn repos.
unpack == unpacking archives or doing nothing, depending on the sources.
configure == running cmake or configure or qmake or ...
make == running (n|mingw32-)make
install == running (n|mingw32-)make install or moving around libraries
so that they end up in a temporary install location (that is
KDEROOT/build/category/package/image-....)
qmerge == merging the install location into the KDEROOT.

so from your point, running emerge --install mpir && emerge --qmerge
mpir should have been enough. ;-)

> 
> In the end I ran "emerge mpir" again which is still running and I hope
> this time completes the install.

A second option would have been to run emerge --noclean --offline mpir
which would have resulted in an uncomplete rebuild.

> 
> I still have issues with sh stalling, I manually have to kill the
> stalled sh process to get the process to continue.
> 
> Out of curiosity what OS and service pack are you compiling on. I was
> thinking about setting up a clean xp install to see if this stall issue
> is something peculiar to my machine.

I am personally using win 7 pro 64bit with all three compilers (on my
laptop only msvc2010).

regards,
Patrick