GCC not added to system path on pacman install - linux

Issue
When installing mingw on a fresh MSYS2 instance I run into the issue of gcc not found:
$ g++
bash: g++: command not found
Setup
Fresh MSYS2 install on relatively clean windows 10 install:
pacman -Syu
pacman -Su
pacman -S make
pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc
Diagnostics
It appears that GCC is successfully installed into the directory /mingw64/bin
Yet my path consists of
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/opt/bin:/c/Windows/System32:/c/Windows:/c/Windows/System32/Wbem:/c/Windows/System32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0/:/usr/bin/site_perl:/usr/bin/vendor_perl:/usr/bin/core_perl:
As such gcc is not found.
I have tried adding /mingw64/bin to the $PATH however this seems like a temporary fix of an underlying problem.
My question specifically is, is there any reason as to why either the mingw is not installed into the /usr/bin/ directory or the installation did not add itself to the path, and or any simple reason as to what is causing this.
Thanks in advance!

Since you installed mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc it seems like you want to compile 64-bit native Windows applications. Therefore, you should start MSYS2 by running mingw64.exe, found at the top level of your MSYS2 installation. That will put /mingw64/bin/ on your PATH and set some other useful environment variables.

Solution
I have found simply adding C:\msys64\mingw64\bin to the host windows computers PATH variable this, in turn, adds \mingw64\bin to the MSYS2 $PATH solving the problem.

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missing libmpfr.so.6 when using a cross-compiler

I am using Ubuntu 18.04
I built a mips cross-compiler using buildroot, but when I tried to test whether it would work,I got this message
/home/daisy/repos/repo/buildroot/output/host/bin/../libexec/gcc/mipsel-buildroot-linux-uclibc/9.3.0/cc1: error while loading shared libraries: libmpfr.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
I searched for solutions , one of which said this:
sudo pacman -S mpfr
Well , my Linux isn't archlinux, this didn't work for me.
somebody please tells me how to deal with it.
The above suggestions of installing libmpfr on your host system are wrong. Buildroot is supposed to have build libmpfr, it should be present in host/lib, and picked up by the cross-compiler by virtue of it having a proper RPATH. If it doesn't work, we need to figure out why, but the correct thing is not to install libmpfr on your host system.
In Ubuntu, apt command (Advanced Packaging Tool) is used for performing such functions as installation of new software packages, upgrade of existing software packages, updating of the package list index, and even upgrading the entire Ubuntu system.
Try this command :-
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt install libmpfr6
This will install shared libraries: libmpfr.so.6 to your Ubuntu system.
Hope It Helps !

How can I install MinGW-w64 and MSYS2?

I am trying to build some open source library. I need a package management system to easily download the dependencies. At first I am using MinGW and MSYS. But the included packages are limited. Someone told me to use Mingw-w64 and MSYS2.
I downloaded the mingw-w64-install from here. When running, it reports the following error. How can I fix it?
And by the way, from the Mingw-w64 download page, I see a lot of download links. Even Cygwin is listed. How are Cygwin and Mingw-w64 related?
My current understanding is, in the time of MinGW and MSYS, MSYS is just a nice addon to MinGW, while in Mingw-w64 + MSYS2, MSYS2 is stand-alone and Mingw-w64 is just a set of libraries it can work with. Just like Cygwin can download many different packages.
Unfortunately, the MinGW-w64 installer you used sometimes has this issue. I myself am not sure about why this happens (I think it has something to do with Sourceforge URL redirection or whatever that the installer currently can't handle properly enough).
Anyways, if you're already planning on using MSYS2, there's no need for that installer.
Download MSYS2 from this page.
After the install completes, click on the MSYS2 UCRT64 in the Start menu (or C:\msys64\ucrt64.exe).
If done correctly, the terminal prompt will say UCRT64 in magenta letters, not MSYS.
Update MSYS2 using pacman -Syuu. If it closes itself during the update, restart it and repeat the same command to finish the update.
You should routinely update your installation.
Install the toolchain: (i.e. the compiler and some extra tools)
pacman -S mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-toolchain
Install any libraries/tools you may need. You can search the repositories by doing
pacman -Ss name_of_something_i_want_to_install
e.g.
pacman -Ss gsl
and install using
pacman -S package_name_of_something_i_want_to_install
e.g.
pacman -S mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-gsl
and from then on the GSL library will be automatically found by your compiler!
Make sure any compilers and libraries you install have this package prefix: mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-. Only use unprefixed packages for misc command-line utilities (such as grep, sed, make, etc), unless you know what you're doing.
Verify that the compiler is working by doing
gcc --version
If you want to use the toolchains (with installed libraries) outside of the MSYS2 environment, all you need to do is add C:/msys64/ucrt64/bin to your PATH.
MSYS2 provides several compiler flavors, UCRT64 being one of them. It should be a reasonable default.
MSYS has not been updated a long time. MSYS2 is more active, and you can download it from MSYS2. It has both the mingw and cygwin fork package.
To install the MinGW-w64 toolchain (reference):
Open the MSYS2 shell from the start menu
Run pacman -Sy pacman to update the package database
Reopen the shell, and run pacman -Syu to update the package database and core system packages
Reopen the shell, and run pacman -Su to update the rest
Install the compiler:
For a 32-bit target, run pacman -S mingw-w64-i686-toolchain
For a 64-bit target, run pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain
Select which package to install; the default is all
You may also need make. Run pacman -S make
You can now also get the stand-alone personal build of MinGW-w64 from https://winlibs.com/ which doesn't require any installation; just extract and its ready to use. This allow having multiple toolchains on the same system (e.g., one for Windows 32-bit and another for Windows 64-bit).
The most straightforward way, as far as I know, is to use Chocolatey to install MinGW:
choco install mingw
Then check with the command whereis gcc. It is going to be installed in C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\bin.
one more thing, to get make working, just copie (or rename if you wish)
with copy mingw32-make.exe make.exe in C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\bin.

error while loading shared libraries: libncurses.so.5:

I've installed Android Studio and tried to run my first project in it, and I've got following error:
Error Output was: /home/user/android-studio/sdk/platform-tools/adb: error while loading shared libraries: libncurses.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
I've already tried to run
sudo ldconfig
but it doesnt help. I've recently installed libncurses (before using android studio).
What should I do?
If libncurses is not installed then install it and try again.
for 32-bit binaries : sudo apt-get install libncurses5:i386
for 64-bit binaries :
sudo apt-get install libncurses5
Also install the collection of libraries by using this command,
sudo apt-get install ia32-libs
error while loading shared libraries: libncurses.so.5
If you see this, your distro probably has a newer version of libncurse installed. First find out what version of libncurses your distro has:
$ ls -1 /usr/lib/libncurses*
/usr/lib/libncurses.so
/usr/lib/libncurses++.so
/usr/lib/libncurses++w.so
/usr/lib/libncursesw.so
/usr/lib/libncurses++w.so.6
/usr/lib/libncursesw.so.6
/usr/lib/libncurses++w.so.6.0
/usr/lib/libncursesw.so.6.0
In this case, we are dealing with version 6, so we make two symlinks:
$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libncursesw.so.6.0 /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5
$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libncursesw.so.6.0 /usr/lib/libtinfo.so.5
After this, the program should run normally.
If you are absolutely sure that libncurses, aka ncurses, is installed, as in you've done a successful 'ls' of the library, then perhaps you are running a 64 bit Linux operating system and only have the 64 bit libncurses installed, when the program that is running (adb) is 32 bit.
If so, a 32 bit program can't link to a 64 bit library (and won't locate it anyway), so you might have to install libcurses, or ncurses (32 bit version). Likewise, if you are running a 64 bit adb, perhaps your ncurses is 32 bit (a possible but less likely scenario).
For Redhat Linux 8 try this:
sudo yum install libncurses*
On Arch Linux you can install ncurses5-compat-libs AUR package.
FYI it is mentioned in Arch Wiki android page, just in case if you'll need some other dependencies for Android Studio: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Android
For Redhat Linux this helped,
sudo yum install ncurses-compat-libs
In Fedora 28 use:
sudo dnf install ncurses-compat-libs
I solved the issue using
ln -s libncursesw.so.5 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.6
on ubunutu 18.10
On Arch, i fix like this:
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libncursesw.so.6 /usr/lib/libtinfo.so.6
To install ncurses-compat-libs on Fedora 24 helped me on this issue
(unable to start adb error while loading shared libraries: libncurses.so.5)
Your system likely does not provide the ncurses library at the version android studio uses. My arch linux install only had ncurses 6 but android studio needs version 5.
You could check if your distribution has a compatability package, or use the solution that Rahmat Aligos suggested.
Mixaz's above answer worked for me. However I had issues installing the package because of PGP check failures. Installing it by skipping the signature worked, you could try this :
yaourt --m-arg "--skipchecksums --skippgpcheck" -Sb <your-package>

gcc-arm-linux-gnueabi command not found

I am trying to install the gnu arm toolchain for ubuntu. I first downloaded the tar from CodeSourcery. However when I go into the bin folder, I cannot run any of the binaries. I have tried with ./ and without and putting it in the PATH and it keeps telling me "Command not Found" yet the file is there in the folder right in front of me. Then I tried sudo apt-get install gcc-arm-linux-gnueabi except after it says it has installed successfully, I cannot find it with whereis gcc-arm-linux-gnueabi. Can anyone help?
fixed, using:
sudo apt-get install gcc-arm*
Are you compiling on a 64-bit OS? Try:
sudo apt-get install ia32-libs
I had the same problem when trying to compile the Raspberry Pi kernel. I was cross-compiling on Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit and the toolchain requires ia32-libs to work on on a 64-bit system.
See http://hertaville.com/2012/09/28/development-environment-raspberry-pi-cross-compiler/
CodeSourcery convention is to use prefix arm-none-linux-gnueabi- for all executables, not gcc-arm-linux-gnueabi that you mention. So, standard name for CodeSourcery gcc would be arm-none-linux-gnueabi-gcc.
After you have installed CodeSourcery G++, you need to add CodeSourcery directory into your PATH.
Typically, I prefer to install CodeSourcery into directory like /opt/arm-2010q1 or something like that. If you don't know where you have installed it, you can find it using locate arm-none-linux-gnueabi-gcc, however you may need to force to update your locate db using sudo updatedb before locate will work properly.
After you have identified where your CodeSourcery is installed, add it your PATH by editing ~/.bashrc like this:
PATH=/opt/arm-2010q1/bin:$PATH
Also, it is customary and very convenient to define
CROSS_COMPILE=arm-none-linux-gnueabi-
in your .bashrc, because with CROSS_COMPILE defined, most tools will automatically use proper compiler for ARM compilation without you doing anything.
if you are on 64 bit os then you need to install this additional libraries.
sudo apt-get install lib32z1 lib32ncurses5 lib32bz2-1.0
got the same error when trying to cross compile the raspberry pi kernel on ubunto 14.04.03 64bit under VM. the solution was found here:
-Install packages used for cross compiling on the Ubuntu box.
sudo apt-get install gcc-arm-linux-gnueabi make git-core ncurses-dev
-Download the toolchain
cd ~
git clone https://github.com/raspberrypi/tools
-Add the toolchain to your path
PATH=$PATH:~/tools/arm-bcm2708/gcc-linaro-arm-linux-gnueabihf-raspbian:~/tools/arm-bcm2708/gcc-linaro-arm-linux-gnueabihf-raspbian-x64/bin
notice the x64 version in the path command
I was also facing the same issue and resolved it after installing the following dependency:
sudo apt-get install lib32z1-dev
If you are on a 64bit build of ubuntu or debian (see e.g. 'cat /proc/version') you should simply use the 64bit cross compilers, if you cloned
git clone https://github.com/raspberrypi/tools
then the 64bit tools are in
tools/arm-bcm2708/gcc-linaro-arm-linux-gnueabihf-raspbian-x64
use that directory for the gcc-toolchain.
A useful tutorial for compiling that I followed is available here Building and compiling Raspberry PI Kernel (use the -x64 path from above as ${CCPREFIX})
You have installed a toolchain which was compiled for i686 on a box which is running an x86_64 userland.
Use an i686 VM.
Its a bit counter-intuitive. The toolchain is called gcc-arm-linux-gnueabi. To invoke the tools execute the following: arm-linux-gnueabi-xxx
where xxx is gcc or ar or ld, etc
try the following command:
which gcc-arm-linux-gnueabi
Its very likely the command is installed in /usr/bin.
I had to cross compile C code in Ubuntu for ARM. This worked for me:
$ sudo apt install gcc-arm-none-eabi
Later, tested it on the qemu emulator
#Install qemu
sudo apt-get install qemu qemu-user-static qemu-system-arm
#Cross compile "helloworld.c"
$ arm-none-eabi-gcc --specs=rdimon.specs -Wl,--start-group -lgcc -lc -lm -lrdimon -Wl,--end-group helloworld.c -o helloworld
#Run
qemu-arm-static helloworld

/usr/include/gnu/stubs.h:7:27: error: gnu/stubs-32.h: No such file or directory

I am trying to install roccc 2.0. I have installed required packages. Now while installing it, it is giving me this error:
/usr/include/gnu/stubs.h:7:27: error: gnu/stubs-32.h: No such file or directory
I searched for gnu/stubs-32.h and came to know, for Linux 64-bit its in glibc-devel and for Linux 32-bit, its in libc6-dev-i386.
I am using Linux 32-bit: i386 GNU/Linux, but couldn't get the lib required to resolve this error.
Can somebody please help me out?
If your Linux distro is Redhat based (Fedora/CentOS/RHEL):
yum install glibc-devel.i686
References
Original post answer solved this problem RHEL x64
Header file gnu/stubs-32.h is under /usr/include/i386-linux-gnu/ but the install script tries to find it in /usr/include/, try this quick fix to complete the installation:
sudo ln -s /usr/include/i386-linux-gnu/gnu/stubs-32.h /usr/include/gnu/stubs-32.h
After installation is finished, you can delete the link.
The package name keeps on changing, just do a
yum list glibc-devel
to find out current package for 32 bit. In my case it only listed 2 packages one for 32 bit and one for 64 bit. I just installed the 32 bit using
yum install glibc-devel.i686
Install 'glibc-devel' package, or whatever it called in your distro. You may also need to install ia32-libs lib32z1-dev lib32bz2-dev (names could be different in your distro).
The script is trying to get stubs-32.h from /usr/include/ where it is not found. To solve this you have to add an "include" path (by default it is /usr/include) like this:
C_INCLUDE_PATH=/usr/include/i386-linux-gnu/
export C_INCLUDE_PATH
OR
export C_INCLUDE_PATH=/usr/include/$(gcc -print-multiarch)
You can visit Error "gnu/stubs-32.h: No such file or directory" while compiling Nachos source code for additional reference.
If on a Red Hat distro such as Fedora/CentOS/RHEL you can do the following to find out what package provides a given file:
$ repoquery -qf */stubs-32.h
glibc-devel-0:2.17-260.el7.i686
And then install it:
$ sudo yum install -y glibc-devel-0:2.17-260.el7.i686

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