I'm attempting to compile a relatively simple Fortran executable so that it can be passed around to other Windows users that don't have Cygwin (or something of the sort) installed, however, I'm unable to get the executable to operate as a standalone. I've tried gfortran -static file.f and gfortran -static-libgfortran file.f, however other users always encounter this error:
The program can’t start because cygwin1.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem.
From what I've read online (e.g. here), the -static option should be sufficient. I have verified that running the executable from my machine (DOS prompt) does work.
I have gcc (gfortran) version 4.7.3. I should also point out this is my first attempt at compiling portable Fortran.
Update
After realizing that this isn't a gfortran-specific issue (thanks to replies here), searches led me to related posts here and here
This is partially explained in the Cygwin FAQ. The solution is to install the mingw64-i686-gcc-fortran package with its dependencies, and cross-compile your code with i686-w64-mingw32-gfortran -static.
Just package the cygwin1.dll along with your binary file (both in the same folder) then it will run just fine.
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If you have an answer for this, or further information, I'd welcome it. I'm following advice from here, to offer some unsolicited help by posting this question then an answer I've already found for it.
I have a bare-metal ARM board for which I'm building a cross-toolchain, from sources for GNU binutils, gcc and gdb, and for SourceWare's Newlib. I got those four working and cross-built a DoNothing.c into an ELF file - but I couldn't disassemble it with this:
$ arm-none-eabi-objdump -S DoNothing.elf
The error was:
$ arm-none-eabi-objdump: error while loading shared libraries: libdebuginfod.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
I'll follow up with a solution.
The error was correct - my system didn't have libdebuginfod.so.1 installed - but I have another cross-binutils, installed from binary for a different target, and its objdump -S works fine on the same host. Why would one build of objdump complain about missing that shared library, when clearly not all builds of objdump need it?
First I tried rebuilding cross binutils, specifying --without-debuginfod as a configure option. No change, which seems odd: surely that should build tools that not only don't use debuginfod but which don't depend on it in any way. (If someone can answer that, or point out what I've misunderstood, it may help people.)
Next I figured debuginfod was inescapable (for my cross-tools built from source at least), so I'd install it to get rid of the error. It's a component of the elfutils package, but installing the latest elfutils available for my Ubuntu 20.04 system didn't bring libdebuginfod.so.1 with it.
I found a later one, for Arch Linux, whose package contents suggested it would - but its package format doesn't match Ubuntu's and installing it was going to involve a lot of work. Instead I opted to build it from the Arch Linux source package. However, running ./configure on that gave a couple of infuriatingly similar errors:
configure: checking libdebuginfod dependencies, --disable-libdebuginfod or --enable-libdebuginfo=dummy to skip
...
configure: error: dependencies not found, use --disable-libdebuginfod to disable or --enable-libdebuginfod=dummy to build a (bootstrap) dummy library.
No combination of those suggestions would allow configure for elfutils-0.182 to run to completion.
The problem of course was my own lack of understanding. The solution came from the Linux From Scratch project: what worked was to issue configure with both of the suggested options, like this:
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr \
--disable-debuginfod \
--enable-libdebuginfod=dummy \
--libdir=/lib
That gave a clean configure; make worked first time, as did make check and then sudo make install which of course installed libdebuginfod.so.1 as required. I then had an arm-none-eabi-objdump which disassembles cross-compiled ELF files without complaining.
i am new to stackflow and i previously i have no background in computer system and programming. However, now i need to run analysis under cygwin for my bioinformatics project. I encounter some error when i try to compile a file name 'zone_b.linux'using cygwin, to produce an executable program. The linux file is download from web https://github.com/haddocking/HADDOCK-binding-sites-tutorial/blob/master/ana_scripts/zone_b.linux. When i try to compile using the following command under cygwin it produce the following error:
$ gcc zone_b.linux
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/6.4.0/../../../libcygwin.a(libcmain.o): In
function `main':
/usr/src/debug/cygwin-2.9.0-3/winsup/cygwin/lib/libcmain.c:37: undefined
reference to `WinMain#16'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
Error description
I search the following error under stackoverflow, and i found two post with similar problem.
First is the post from undefined reference to `WinMain#16'. It stated that the problem is due the Microsoft'linker uses a runtime library entry point(winMainCRTStartup) that calls Microsoft's non-standard WinMain instead of standard main. So, i try the post's suggestion of including the entry by following command
$ gcc zone_b.linux /entry:winMainCRTStartup
gcc: error: /entry:winMainCRTStartup: No such file or directory
However i get the error no such file or directory. I think maybe it is because i am running under cygwin not mingW.
Second post is the Undefined reference to WinMain in Cygwin. From the post, it said use -c compile flag to only produce object file. However, for my case, i am not using any -c. Therefore, i think it is not relevant to my issue.
I would appreciate if anyone could kindly explain to me since i am new to this computing area. Thank you.
zone_b.linux is the compiled and linked executable program to run on a linux machine. It is a 32-bit ELF binary file. It will not work on a Windows machine, even using cygwin or mingw32, without re-compulation.
You probably have to compile zone_b.f, a FORTRAN source file, using the gfortran compiler to create a zone_b.exe that is usable in cygwin. I saw no instructions for this, but try something like gcc zone_b.f and cross fingers. Be sure gfortran is installed using cygwin setup.
You will also need to (re-)build the other executables (cluster_struc and contact) by performing make in the ana_scripts directory. Any supplied executables (from the git clone ... or a downloaded .zip file) will not work under cygwin.
You will need to have perl and python installed. I think perl is installed by default. You can install python2 using cygwin setup. The python script looked like it will work with python2 or python3, whichever is the default. On cygwin, today, python2 is the default python. I don't do perl, so cross your fingers.
I believe my question is similar to this post: Linux: cannot find lgfortran though gfortran is installed.
However, since the suggested answer does not fix my problem, there seems no other choice other than asking it again, for a desperate Linux new comer like me.
Here is the problem. I installed GNU fortran compiler 4.8.4 and can find it in terminal
$ which gfortran-4.8
/usr/bin/gfortran-4.8
and
$ locate gfortran
/usr/bin/gfortran-4.7
/usr/bin/gfortran-4.8
/usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-gfortran-4.7
/usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-gfortran-4.8
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.7/libgfortran.a
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.7/libgfortran.so
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.7/libgfortran.spec
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.7/libgfortranbegin.a
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.8/libgfortran.a
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.8/libgfortran.so
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.8/libgfortran.spec
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.8/libgfortranbegin.a
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgfortran.so.3
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgfortran.so.3.0.0
/usr/share/doc/gfortran-4.7
/usr/share/doc/gfortran-4.8
/usr/share/doc/libgfortran-4.7-dev
/usr/share/doc/libgfortran-4.8-dev
/usr/share/doc/libgfortran3
/usr/share/man/man1/gfortran-4.7.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/gfortran-4.8.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/x86_64-linux-gnu-gfortran-4.7.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/x86_64-linux-gnu-gfortran-4.8.1.gz
/var/cache/apt/archives/gfortran-4.7_4.7.3-12ubuntu1_amd64.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/gfortran-4.8_4.8.4-2ubuntu1~14.04_amd64.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/libgfortran-4.7-dev_4.7.3-12ubuntu1_amd64.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/libgfortran-4.8-dev_4.8.4-2ubuntu1~14.04_amd64.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/libgfortran3_4.8.4-2ubuntu1~14.04_amd64.deb
/var/lib/dpkg/info/gfortran-4.7.list
/var/lib/dpkg/info/gfortran-4.7.md5sums
/var/lib/dpkg/info/gfortran-4.8.list
/var/lib/dpkg/info/gfortran-4.8.md5sums
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libgfortran-4.7-dev:amd64.list
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libgfortran-4.7-dev:amd64.md5sums
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libgfortran-4.8-dev:amd64.list
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libgfortran-4.8-dev:amd64.md5sums
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libgfortran3:amd64.list
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libgfortran3:amd64.md5sums
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libgfortran3:amd64.postinst
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libgfortran3:amd64.postrm
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libgfortran3:amd64.shlibs
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libgfortran3:amd64.symbols
So gfortran seems installed, although I don't understand why 4.7 version is still there after my removing it.
In setting Global Compiler Settings of Code:Blocks, when I choose GNU Fortran Compiler, and its Toolchain Executables, I tried the installation directory as
/usr
/usr/bin
and
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.8/
as suggested in the previous post, Code:Blocks tell me
could not auto-detect installation path of "GNU Fortran Compiler".....
More details of compiler configuration is here in the image (Thanks to Mike's suggestion).
And here's the full list of compilers on my computer:
List of Compliers
Your posting shows that you have both gfortran-4.7 and gfortran-4.8
installed under /usr/bin.
Having multiple GCC Fortran compilers (or multiple C or C++ compilers) is
perfectly valid and commonplace. Code::Blocks will allow you configure
as many Fortran compilers as you have got, provided you give them different
names. It's also fine if you just want to configure one of them as the
"GNU Fortran Compiler" and ignore the others.
But in any case, Code::Blocks must be able to unambiguously identify the
installed compiler that you are calling "GNU Fortran Compiler". You
have specified the Compiler's installation directory as /usr/bin
and have left the Program files compiler name as gfortran.
There is no such compiler as /usr/bin/gfortran in your system,
and there is no program called gfortran anywhere in your PATH. You
have /usr/bin/gfortran-4.7 and /usr/bin/gfortran-4.8. As you have
installed both of them, Code::Blocks assumes you want both of them. It
can't tell which one of them you want to configure as "GNU Fortran Compiler".
So:-
Set Compiler's installation directory = /usr/bin
In Program files, change all occurrences of gfortran to gfortran-4.8,
if you want "GNU Fortran Compiler" to mean gfortran-4.8.
OK out.
Default compiler name in 20.3 version was mingw32-gfortran. However, the executable name coming with installation is x86_64-w64-mingw32-gfortran. If this is written in compiler settings. It works.enter image description here
The install file codeblocks-20.03mingw-setup installs the file gfortran.exe into the C:\Program Files\CodeBlocks\MinGW\bin directory. However the Settings>Compiler>toolchainexecutables autodetect function looks for mingw32-gfortran.exe.
To fix this, in toolchainexecutables, change the filename mingw32-gfortran.exe to gfortran.exe in 3 places, then autodetect will find it.
I'm trying to install gcc4.9 on a SUSE system without an internet connection. I compiled gcc on an Ubuntu machine and installed it into a prefix, then copied the prefix folder to the SUSE machine. When I tried to run it gcc complained about not finding GLIBC_2_14, so I downloaded an rpm for libc6 online and included it into the prefix folders. my LD_LIBRARY_PATH includes prefix/lib and prefix/lib64. When I try to run any program now (ls, cp, cat, etc) I get the error error while loading shared libraries: /home/***/prefix/lib64/libc.so.6: unexpected reloc type 0x25.
Is there any way I can fix this so that I can get gcc4.9 up and running on this system?
As an alternative, is it possible to build gcc staticaly so that I don't have to worry about linking at all when I transfer it between computers?
my LD_LIBRARY_PATH includes prefix/lib and prefix/lib64
See this answer for explanation of why this can't work.
Is there any way I can fix this so that I can get gcc4.9 up and running on this system?
Your best bet is to install whatever GCC package comes with the SuSE system, then use that GCC to configure and install gcc-4.9 on it.
If for some reason you can't do that, this answer has some of the ways in which you can build gcc-4.9 on a newer system and have it still work on an older one.
is it possible to build gcc staticaly so that I don't have to worry about linking at all when I transfer it between computers?
Contrary to popular belief, fully-static binaries are generally less portable then dynamic ones on Linux.
I am trying to compile a simple hello world program in Haskell, with Haskell Platform 2011.2.0.1. If I load the code in WinGHCi, and use the GUI to compile, the .exe is created. Then I can run the .exe from Cygwin.
But if I try to compile the code in Cygwin (using ghc --make), linker fails. But again, if I compile from the Windows cmd prompt, then the compile+linker works fine.
Are there any other environment variables I need to import into Cygwin, to make the compile+linker work in it? I have put the following dirs in my Cygwin PATH: 2011.2.0.1/lib/extralibs/bin, 2011.2.0.1/bin (these are the only two valid Haskell related entries that I could see in the Windows environment variables).
I also noticed a couple of invalid items in the Windows environment variables (this looks like a bug in the Haskell installation):
(system var) C/ProgramFiles/Haskell/bin - this dir does not exist because I have installed Haskell in D disk.
(user var) userxxx/ApplicationData/cabal/bin - this dir does not exist.
I tried to file a bug report in HaskellPlatform, but I dont have permission to do it.
Without access to your development environment or a listing of the errors that you're getting, I can only assume that the issue is related to the way that you've set up your PATH.
GHC on Windows comes bundled with its own gcc compiler (for C code) and ld linker. If you've installed Cygwin, you've probably also installed the MinGW toolchain, which comes with its own version of gcc and ld. Then, you've probably made your PATH variable list /usr/bin before the path to the Haskell Platform binary directories, which makes ghc find the MinGW linker and C compiler before it finds the versions that were bundled with GHC.
You need to make sure that the HP directories are listed before the Cygwin directories. It should not be like this:
$ echo $PATH
/bin:/usr/bin:.../2011.2.0.1/bin
Instead, it should be like this:
$ echo $PATH
.../2011.2.0.1/bin:/bin:/usr/bin
This is only a guess at what the issue might be, and you should provide more details for a better diagnosis.