Emerge adventure with mingw - 11 issues 10 solutions

Thu Jul 30 16:01:19 UTC 2015

On Thursday 30 July 2015 16:11:19 Antton Tapani wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've been trying out emerge for the first time with varying rates of
> success, so I thought I'd document my progress. I use master branch
> (22.7.2015 [dmy]) as it seems to be recommended judging by discussion on
> the web, and by the fact that I was unable to run any other branch that I
> tried (python errors or errors during kdeenv setup). My final goal is to
> build Krita with mingw-w64 (against all recommendations, apparently), but
> in this instance I'm happy to just get the dependencies compiled. I have
> yet to actually run anything, so even if these fixes make the compiler
> happy, there's no guarantee that they actually work. If some other branch
> is supposed to be more functional, I may have just messed up the initial
> setup with them.
> 
> ----kdeenv----
> I got some problems with the powershell script, and the guide I was using
> failed to mention that the powershell bits are actually optional. There's
> also a bat version. I managed to run the ps1 script once but later it just
> kept crashing during the env setup. I didn't look into it further after
> discovering the bat. Just a heads-up that the bat may be a comfier option.

Yes. I also think the wiki is a bit confusing here. We should really try to 
enforce new people using the .bat first (it's way easier to use).
> 
> ----emerge qt----
> 1.  A lot of the sourceforge links are no longer valid. Most links are
> forwarded automatically to new location, but some return 404. Easy to fix
> manually, but somewhat confusing initially.

Do you have patches for this?

> 2.  Websites may be down momentarily, causing some confusion whether a link
> is dead or not. I wasted some time trying to sort out activeperl, when it
> wasn't really broken.
> 3.  Openssl-1.0.2c is no longer available. Apparently emerge is happy if
> the new version number is added to the list and default target changed.

I think I've fixed that just a few days ago. Pointed the download location to 
their FTP which (still) has all the versions.

> 4.  Mysql download fails. cdn.mysql.com does not work anymore. Changed
> basepath to dev.mysql.com

Oh, right.

New base path is "http://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/", right?

NFM, can't comment on the rest. But please continue reporting bugs and or 
providing patches, highly appreciated!

Cheers,
Kevin

> 5.  qt defaults to ANGLE+directx sdk. Failing that, it disables angle with
> a warning that build will most likely fail; continue? Added "-opengl
> desktop" to download\git\qtbase\configure.bat to force full opengl.
> 6.  Apparently building qtwebkit can randomly fail with "No such file or
> directory" errors. Simply trying again fixes this. It's also possible that
> the installation can fail silently. See point 9 further down.
> 
> I also found it strange that msys gave a big framed warning that shell must
> be restarted before continuing after first run. Then there was a prompt for
> continue yes/no. I was not present at the time so it happily defaulted to
> yes and soon crashed with some cryptic error (which I forgot to note down).
> This apparently left msys dysfunctional and it had to be reinstalled
> manually*1) [1]
> 
> ----emerge frameworks----
> (calligra guide [2] suggests emerging kdelibs, but this doesn't seem to
> exist anymore. I'm assuming there's something equivalent in frameworks)
> 7.  Building kdoctools fails. Added colon ':' to the list of escaped
> characters in download\git\kdoctools\cmake\uriencode.cmake [3]
> 8.  win32libs/gpg-error fails with a whole bunch of errors such as this:
> R:/build/win32libs/gpg-error/work/mingw-w64-RelWithDebInfo-1.12/mkerrcodes.h
> :9:5: error: expected expression before ',' token
>    { , "GPG_ERR_E2BIG" },
>      ^
> This is apparently caused by differing behaviour in gcc-5 compared to
> earlier versions. Suggested fix [4] is to add compiler flag -P via
> libgpg-error-x.xx\src\Makefile.am. This stumped me for  some time, because
> I didn't realize that this is an automake file which is not used by cmake.
> In our case the flags go to
> emerge\portage\win32libs\gpg-error\libgpg-error-cmake-1.12.diff to the
> generation calls for mkerrcodes.h and mkw32errmap.tab.h at lines 113 and
> 115 after the -E flags *2). There is a similar recent fix to this on this
> mailing list, but that didn't show up in searches while I was dealing with
> this.
> 9.   kdewebkit build failed, claiming that qtwebkit is not installed
> (missing cmake files in lib\cmake). This may relate to the random build
> fail of qtwebkit at point 6. I did a full rebuild with "emerge -i
> qtwebkit". After this, kdewebkit built successfully.
> 10.  khtml fails with "conflicting declarations" errors. There are two
> time.h files visible in include\mingw and
> mingw64\x86_64-w64-mingw32\include. I couldn't figure this one out, so I
> just removed the include\mingw one while building khtml, and then put it
> back. Probably not the best of ideas.
> 11.  Kross fails with errors:
> CMakeFiles\metafunctiontest.dir/objects.a(metafunctiontest.cpp.obj): In
> function `Kross::MetaFunction::~MetaFunction()':
> q:/kross/src/core/metafunction.h:128: undefined reference to
> `__imp__ZTVN5Kross12MetaFunctionE'
> q:/kross/src/core/metafunction.h:128: undefined reference to
> `__imp__ZTVN5Kross12MetaFunctionE'
> CMakeFiles\metafunctiontest.dir/objects.a(metafunctiontest.cpp.obj): In
> function `Kross::MetaFunction::MetaFunction(QObject*, QByteArray const&)':
> q:/kross/src/core/metafunction.h:60: undefined reference to
> `__imp__ZTVN5Kross12MetaFunctionE'
> collect2.exe: error: ld returned 1 exit status
> Resulting from the call:
> r:\mingw64\bin\g++.exe   -std=c++0x -fno-exceptions -Wall -Wextra
> -Wcast-align -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat-security -Wno-long-long
> -Wpointer-arith -Wundef -Wnon-virtual-dtor -Woverloaded-virtual
> -Werror=return-type -O2 -g -DNDEBUG  -mwindows -Wl,--whole-archive
> CMakeFiles\metafunctiontest.dir/objects.a -Wl,--no-whole-archive  -o
> ..\bin\metafunctiontest.exe
> -Wl,--out-implib,..\lib\libmetafunctiontest.dll.a
> -Wl,--major-image-version,0,--minor-image-version,0
> @CMakeFiles\metafunctiontest.dir\linklibs.rsp
> (I understand this is not enough debugging information, but hopefully
> someone already has a solution off the cuff)
> 
> And this is where I'm stumped. I tried to debug this over a couple of days,
> and this goes a bit over my head. This was a fun excursion, and I'm going
> to leave it at that for now. I'll post a part2 if I ever get around the
> last one and the ones that inevitably emerge after it. Do tell me if some
> other branch is more functional and mingw friendly. I may have done
> something wrong to start with.
> ____________________________
> *1) msys fix for the error: make: command not found [1]
> run msys.bat (in \emerge\portage\dev-util\msys)
> call pacman -Syu
> confirm all prompts
> run autorebase.bat (in \msys )
> call pacman -S base-devel
> select all whem prompted
> start a new command prompt for kdeenv. The bats add some env variables that
> may mess up emerge
> 
> *2) example fix for libgpg-error-cmake-1.12.diff  (don't copypaste, may
> mess up the patch)
> +add_custom_command(OUTPUT ${BIN_DIR}/mkerrcodes.h  COMMAND
> ${AWK_EXECUTABLE} -f ${SRC_DIR}/mkerrcodes1.awk ${SRC_DIR}/errnos.in >
> ${BIN_DIR}/_mkerrcodes.h
> +                                                   #COMMAND set
> INCLUDE="\"${INCLUDE_STRING}\""
> +                                                   COMMAND ${ERR_COMPILER}
> -E -P ${BIN_DIR}/_mkerrcodes.h ${NULL_DEVICE} | "\"${GREP_EXECUTABLE}\""
> GPG_ERR_ |
> +
> "\"${AWK_EXECUTABLE}\"" -f ${SRC_DIR}/mkerrcodes.awk >
> ${BIN_DIR}/mkerrcodes.h)
> +add_custom_command(OUTPUT ${BIN_DIR}/mkw32errmap.tab.h COMMAND
> ${ERR_COMPILER} -E -P -DRESOLVE_MACROS ${SRC_DIR}/mkw32errmap.c
> ${NULL_DEVICE} | "\"${GREP_EXECUTABLE}\"" \"{&mkw32errmap_marker\" >
> ${BIN_DIR}/mkw32errmap.tab.h)
> 
> references:
> [1] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=329856 (msys)
> [2] https://community.kde.org/Calligra/Building_Calligra_on_Windows
> [3] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=348061 (doctools)
> [4]
> http://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=libgpg-error.git;a=commitdiff;h=c0
> 1c8f0c4f55d76b037c7f6aa44ad25ede18d38a

-- 
Kevin Funk | kfunk at kde.org | http://kfunk.org
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