[rabbitmq-discuss] Trouble building rabbitmq-c on windows

[Alexis Richardson]

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On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 8:55 PM, Paul Pearcy <paul.pearcy at wallst.com> wrote:
> Sorry for the noise, I believe I have gotten to the bottom of this.
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> By default on our systems, we have the $CL var have a couple of default
> values that were not playing nice. After clearing this var and restarting
> everything, things look sane.
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> From: Paul Pearcy
> Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 1:36 PM
> To: Paul Pearcy; rabbitmq-discuss at lists.rabbitmq.com
> Subject: RE: Trouble building rabbitmq-c on windows
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> I got past my initial error by adding spaces to the start and end of my $CL
> env variable. For some reason mingw didn’t like them, while cygwin is fine
> either way.
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> Now stuck on this error:
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> configure:3128: cl.exe -nologo   conftest.c  >&5
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> conftest.c
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> LINK : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _mainCRTStartup
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> conftest.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals
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> I can run the command outside of the configure script and get it to succeed,
> so I am a little baffled.
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> Thanks,
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> Paul
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> From: rabbitmq-discuss-bounces at lists.rabbitmq.com
> [mailto:rabbitmq-discuss-bounces at lists.rabbitmq.com] On Behalf Of Paul
> Pearcy
> Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 11:12 AM
> To: rabbitmq-discuss at lists.rabbitmq.com
> Subject: [rabbitmq-discuss] Trouble building rabbitmq-c on windows
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> Hello,
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>   I am unfortunately stuck on Windows and C land and am trying to get the
> rabbitmq-c client built up on windows using the Visual Studio compiler.
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> First off, this client is marked as experimental. I am curious how
> experimental this is… for instance, would I be a fool to use this library
> for production purposes? If so, is there a different recommended library or
> should I be looking at a different messaging system with better C support?
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> I am have gone through the README.windows many times and think I understand
> the steps, but there is some disconnect.
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> Here are the steps I took:
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> 1)      Grabbed the recommended mingw package using the given install script
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> 2)      Coped rabbitmq-c and rabbitmq-codegen(though I’m not sure what this
> one does yet) into the mingw directory.
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> 3)      Start up the bash from my new mingw
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> 4)      Verify that python is available and that /bin is in my path for
> mingw apps (I actually had to add /bin to my PATH)
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> 5)      Ran the mount command as specified: mount ‘C:\mingw’ /mingw – this
> succeeds
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> 6)      Enter the rabbitmq-c directory and kick off the build:
> etc/build-ms.sh
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> Below are the outputs from the configure run. I have tried this on a
> Windows7 machine and a WindowsXP machine and in both cases, I got the same
> results. It looks to me like the command to verify the compiler isn’t being
> run correctly.
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> Please let me know if there are any ideas.
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> Thanks,
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> Paul
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> Here is the output from this:
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> Using Visual Studio install at /C/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio 8
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> Using Windows SDK install at /C/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio
> 8/VC
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> /PlatformSDK
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> + autoreconf -i
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> C:\mingw\bin\libtoolize: Consider adding `AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])' to
> configur
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> e.ac and
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> C:\mingw\bin\libtoolize: rerunning C:\mingw\bin\libtoolize, to keep the
> correct
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> libtool macros in-tree.
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> C:\mingw\bin\libtoolize: Consider adding `-I m4' to ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS in
> Makefile.
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> am.
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> + ./configure CC=cl.exe LD=link.exe CFLAGS=-nologo
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> checking for a BSD-compatible install... /bin//install -c
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> checking whether build environment is sane... yes
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> checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin//mkdir -p
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> checking for gawk... gawk
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> checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
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> checking for style of include used by make... GNU
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> checking for gcc... cl.exe
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> checking whether the C compiler works... no
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> configure: error: in `/rabbitmq-c-fd437100993d':
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> configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
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> See `config.log' for more details.
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> Here is what I see in the config.log:
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> configure:3061: checking for C compiler version
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> configure:3070: cl.exe --version >&5
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> Microsoft (R) Incremental Linker Version 8.00.50727.42
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> Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.
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> /out:Oy-.exe
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> C:/mingw/Oy-
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> LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file 'C:/mingw/Oy-.obj'
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> Microsoft (R) C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 14.00.50727.42 for x64
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> Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.
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> cl : Command line warning D9002 : ignoring unknown option '--version'
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> cl : Command line warning D9024 : unrecognized source file type
> 'C:/mingw/Oy-', object file assumed
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> configure:3081: $? = 2
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> configure:3070: cl.exe -v >&5
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> Microsoft (R) Incremental Linker Version 8.00.50727.42
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> Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.
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> /out:Oy-.exe
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> C:/mingw/Oy-
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> LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file 'C:/mingw/Oy-.obj'
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> Microsoft (R) C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 14.00.50727.42 for x64
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> Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.
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> cl : Command line warning D9002 : ignoring unknown option '-v'
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> cl : Command line warning D9024 : unrecognized source file type
> 'C:/mingw/Oy-', object file assumed
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> configure:3081: $? = 2
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> configure:3070: cl.exe -V >&5
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> Microsoft (R) C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 14.00.50727.42 for x64
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> Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.
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> cl : Command line error D8004 : '/V' requires an argument
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> configure:3081: $? = 2
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> configure:3070: cl.exe -qversion >&5
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> Microsoft (R) Incremental Linker Version 8.00.50727.42
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> Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.
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> /out:Oy-.exe
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> C:/mingw/Oy-
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> LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file 'C:/mingw/Oy-.obj'
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> Microsoft (R) C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 14.00.50727.42 for x64
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> Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.
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> cl : Command line warning D9002 : ignoring unknown option '-qversion'
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> cl : Command line warning D9024 : unrecognized source file type
> 'C:/mingw/Oy-', object file assumed
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> configure:3081: $? = 2
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> configure:3101: checking whether the C compiler works
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> configure:3123: cl.exe -nologo   conftest.c  >&5
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> cl : Command line warning D9024 : unrecognized source file type
> 'C:/mingw/Oy-', object file assumed
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> conftest.c
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> LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file 'C:/mingw/Oy-.obj'
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> configure:3127: $? = 2
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> configure:3165: result: no
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> configure: failed program was:
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