[Gridflow-dev] [win32] Building on MinGW, possible?

[carmen]

On Sun Mar 25, 2007 at 12:38:02AM +0100, federico wrote:
> hello,
> I'm trying to build GridFlow on Windows XP
> 
> I've built ruby-1.8.6 in the same environment (installed in C:/ruby)
> also installed win32-process and windows-rp ruby extensions
> 
> when I launch configure, I get a strange error (unknown option "child#0")
> looking at the configure source, I don't figure out where "child#0" came from.
> 
> it seems it can't create executables with gcc:
> ls -l tmp
> -rw-r--r--    1 user     Administ      158 Mar 25 00:33 3604.cpp
> 
> also if I hardcode in $conf:CC the full path to g++ it is the same...
> 
> also, a little note: on win32 executable always have a ".exe" suffix,
> so even in the case it could create executables, then it won't be able
> to run them
> 
> 
> I hope someone could help, please.
> 

for this one, check the config.log to see which args are being senet to gcc. its possibly a bug in the win32 popen/fork implementation in ruby.. (sorry for top posting)
> 
> ----------- configure output: ------------
> 
> 
> ./configure
> This is the GridFlow 0.9.0 configurator within Ruby version 1.8.6-2007-03-24
> [gcc3] GNU C++ Compiler 3 (or 4):
> unknown option "child#0"
> 
> unknown option "child#0"
> --------------------------------------------> found


mkdir tmp

> 
> ./configure:292:in `popen': No such file or directory - tmp/2716 (Errno::ENOENT)
>         from ./configure:292
>         from ./configure:920:in `[]'
>         from ./configure:920:in `try'
>         from ./configure:919:in `each'
>         from ./configure:919:in `try'
>         from ./configure:929
>         from ./configure:929:in `each'
>         from ./configure:929
> 
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