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

[Alexis Richardson]

On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 9:28 PM, Paul Pearcy <paul.pearcy at wallst.com> wrote:
> Was still curious and should have asked in my previous update...
>
> What is the general consensus of the reliability of the rabbitmq-c client?
> Are there production users of this client?

Good, and lots of people use it.  It's embedded in other clients too (eg PHP).


> Any major known gotchas to look out for?

I can't knowledgeably answer this but my impression is that the
engineering team feel the way some things like concurrency are handled
could be better, and indeed the whole client could be improved.


> Beta doesn't scare me much, but experimental does a little :-)

Then think of it as beta ;-)

alexis


> Thanks!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: alexis.richardson at gmail.com [mailto:alexis.richardson at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Alexis Richardson
> Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 2:16 PM
> To: Paul Pearcy
> Cc: rabbitmq-discuss at lists.rabbitmq.com
> Subject: Re: [rabbitmq-discuss] Trouble building rabbitmq-c on windows
>
> Great, let us know if you have any more problems...
>
> alexis
>
> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> Now stuck on this error:
>>
>> configure:3128: cl.exe -nologo   conftest.c  >&5
>>
>> conftest.c
>>
>>
>>
>> LINK : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _mainCRTStartup
>>
>>
>>
>> conftest.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals
>>
>>
>>
>> I can run the command outside of the configure script and get it to succeed,
>> so I am a little baffled.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Paul
>>
>>
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>>   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.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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?
>>
>>
>>
>> I am have gone through the README.windows many times and think I understand
>> the steps, but there is some disconnect.
>>
>>
>>
>> Here are the steps I took:
>>
>> 1)      Grabbed the recommended mingw package using the given install script
>>
>> 2)      Coped rabbitmq-c and rabbitmq-codegen(though I'm not sure what this
>> one does yet) into the mingw directory.
>>
>> 3)      Start up the bash from my new mingw
>>
>> 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)
>>
>> 5)      Ran the mount command as specified: mount 'C:\mingw' /mingw - this
>> succeeds
>>
>> 6)      Enter the rabbitmq-c directory and kick off the build:
>> etc/build-ms.sh
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> Please let me know if there are any ideas.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Paul
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Here is the output from this:
>>
>>
>>
>> Using Visual Studio install at /C/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio 8
>>
>> Using Windows SDK install at /C/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio
>> 8/VC
>>
>> /PlatformSDK
>>
>> + autoreconf -i
>>
>> C:\mingw\bin\libtoolize: Consider adding `AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])' to
>> configur
>>
>> e.ac and
>>
>> C:\mingw\bin\libtoolize: rerunning C:\mingw\bin\libtoolize, to keep the
>> correct
>>
>> libtool macros in-tree.
>>
>> C:\mingw\bin\libtoolize: Consider adding `-I m4' to ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS in
>> Makefile.
>>
>> am.
>>
>> + ./configure CC=cl.exe LD=link.exe CFLAGS=-nologo
>>
>> checking for a BSD-compatible install... /bin//install -c
>>
>> checking whether build environment is sane... yes
>>
>> checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin//mkdir -p
>>
>> checking for gawk... gawk
>>
>> checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
>>
>> checking for style of include used by make... GNU
>>
>> checking for gcc... cl.exe
>>
>> checking whether the C compiler works... no
>>
>> configure: error: in `/rabbitmq-c-fd437100993d':
>>
>> configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
>>
>> See `config.log' for more details.
>>
>>
>>
>> Here is what I see in the config.log:
>>
>> configure:3061: checking for C compiler version
>>
>> configure:3070: cl.exe --version >&5
>>
>> Microsoft (R) Incremental Linker Version 8.00.50727.42
>>
>>
>>
>> Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> /out:Oy-.exe
>>
>>
>>
>> C:/mingw/Oy-
>>
>>
>>
>> LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file 'C:/mingw/Oy-.obj'
>>
>>
>>
>> Microsoft (R) C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 14.00.50727.42 for x64
>>
>> Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.
>>
>>
>>
>> cl : Command line warning D9002 : ignoring unknown option '--version'
>>
>> cl : Command line warning D9024 : unrecognized source file type
>> 'C:/mingw/Oy-', object file assumed
>>
>> configure:3081: $? = 2
>>
>> configure:3070: cl.exe -v >&5
>>
>> Microsoft (R) Incremental Linker Version 8.00.50727.42
>>
>>
>>
>> Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> /out:Oy-.exe
>>
>>
>>
>> C:/mingw/Oy-
>>
>>
>>
>> LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file 'C:/mingw/Oy-.obj'
>>
>>
>>
>> Microsoft (R) C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 14.00.50727.42 for x64
>>
>> Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.
>>
>>
>>
>> cl : Command line warning D9002 : ignoring unknown option '-v'
>>
>> cl : Command line warning D9024 : unrecognized source file type
>> 'C:/mingw/Oy-', object file assumed
>>
>> configure:3081: $? = 2
>>
>> configure:3070: cl.exe -V >&5
>>
>> Microsoft (R) C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 14.00.50727.42 for x64
>>
>> Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.
>>
>>
>>
>> cl : Command line error D8004 : '/V' requires an argument
>>
>> configure:3081: $? = 2
>>
>> configure:3070: cl.exe -qversion >&5
>>
>> Microsoft (R) Incremental Linker Version 8.00.50727.42
>>
>>
>>
>> Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> /out:Oy-.exe
>>
>>
>>
>> C:/mingw/Oy-
>>
>>
>>
>> LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file 'C:/mingw/Oy-.obj'
>>
>>
>>
>> Microsoft (R) C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 14.00.50727.42 for x64
>>
>> Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.
>>
>>
>>
>> cl : Command line warning D9002 : ignoring unknown option '-qversion'
>>
>> cl : Command line warning D9024 : unrecognized source file type
>> 'C:/mingw/Oy-', object file assumed
>>
>> configure:3081: $? = 2
>>
>> configure:3101: checking whether the C compiler works
>>
>> configure:3123: cl.exe -nologo   conftest.c  >&5
>>
>> cl : Command line warning D9024 : unrecognized source file type
>> 'C:/mingw/Oy-', object file assumed
>>
>>
>>
>> conftest.c
>>
>>
>>
>> LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file 'C:/mingw/Oy-.obj'
>>
>>
>>
>> configure:3127: $? = 2
>>
>> configure:3165: result: no
>>
>> configure: failed program was:
>>
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