I've tried to execute make file with nmake in dos-prompt and got the following message:
makefile.in(145) : fatal error U1034: syntax error : separator missing
I took a look into the make file and the line 145 says:
ifeq (#INSTALINFO_FOUND#,yes)
I have absolutely no clue how to fix this ... Do you have any ideas?
Makefile.in indicates the build system you should use is the GNU autotools. These will pre-process your files into GNU format makefile(s). You are then expected to use GNU make with these makefiles.
nmake is a completely different beast and will not be compatible with these files.
I suggest you investigate whether your package is buildable using Microsft tools (hunt out words like nmake or Visual Studio or Windows etc., in its documentation). Your other alternative is to grab a windows port of the Autotools. Cygwin is good, but here be dragons for the unwary.
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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'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.
I have searched this but the questions I found are about getting the toolchain to work, my problem is that it works on all but a few directories. Also I am not building Linux.
I am trying to move a project from a Linux machine to Windows to make people happy. The same project builds fine under Linux (Ubuntu 12.04) using the Linux Binary for the same toolchain (I recently reloaded both toolchains from the same directory at Mentor to be sure, see details below).
I installed Cygwin, got the packages, set up paths, etc. In general the build works for 90% of the project BUT as make traverses the directory, it finds everything except two files (to clarify, these two are the first files in their respective directories, so I assume the problem will apply to the whole directory). The log below shows the first fail:
if I take lwip out of the build then it blows up on the next one
if I take the next one out of the build then everything else (quite a bit) compiles; then the linker fails on the two missing items as expected.
More precisely, e.g.
it finds /home/Nadi/project/version-2.9/external/freertos/Source/portable/GCC/ARM_CM3_MPU/port.c
but not /home/Nadi/project/version-2.9/external/lwip/src/api/api_lib.c
from the directory that I am running make, "ls" finds the file that the compiler cannot.
log:
$ make
external/freertos
external/lwip
[cc] Debug/api_lib.o
arm-none-eabi-gcc.exe: error: /home/Nadi/project/version-2.9/external/lwip/src/api/api_lib.c: No such file or directory
arm-none-eabi-gcc.exe: fatal error: no input files compilation terminated.
Makefile:189: recipe for target `Debug/api_lib.o' failed
make[2]: *** [Debug/api_lib.o] Error 1
Makefile:37: recipe for target `lwip_world' failed
make[1]: *** [lwip_world] Error 2
Makefile:160: recipe for target `extern' failed
make: *** [extern] Error 2
Details:
GCC Chain : arm-none-eabi-gcc ; gcc version 4.7.2 (Sourcery CodeBench Lite 2012.09-63)
Cygwin : CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64
Although it might not help in this particular case, I faced similar problem with CodeSourcery's gcc not recognising Cygwin's paths like /cygdrive/d/foo.c at all - installation of cygpath package and setting environment variable export CYGPATH=c:/cygwin32/bin/cygpath (or set CYGPATH=c:/cygwin32/bin/cygpath in windows console) solved all the issues.
Be sure to define path to cygpath executable in exactly same way as above, regardless of Cygwin or Windows console used.
The details of my previous comment is that you're in for a lot of trouble using the windows/cygwin combo with Sourcery based cross-compilers. You can read more about this at SamyGo. Some of the issues using Windows, presented in all gory detail there, are:
Uses ACL to set file permissions and ownership (Not Linux compatible.)
Has it's own way of creating symbolic links (Not Linux compatible.)
Uses a non case-sensitive default for its fixed NTFS drives.
(Often and silently break archives originally compressed under Linux.)
Uses the Win32 (non POSIX) standard for file paths (Not Linux compatible.)
Uses the 2 characters Carriage-Return and New-Line ("\r" & "\n") for
End-of-Line (EOL) representation, contrary to POSIX, which uses only NL.
So in order not to waste time doing 3rd party debugging, you'd be much better off building your own cross-compiler from scratch, as shown in the XDA links in that other post. Since the advent of Android's, this is no longer difficult.
I'm trying to implement an open source library that is built using the GNU compiler. (namely, this: https://github.com/mjwybrow/adaptagrams )
I've tried opening and building that source code using VSC++ 6, but it results in over a thousand errors due to the strict nature of the VS compiler I guess. And rather then go through every error and try fix it myself, I was wondering if it's possible to just include the .lib if it is built with the GNU compiler?
EDIT:
Included in the source code linked above is an autogen.sh file.
mkdir -p m4
autoreconf --install --verbose
automake -a --add-missing
./configure
make
Running that with Cygwin results in a few .a library files to be created, which are unusable in VS. Is it ok to just rename these to .lib files?
I've found some stuff online about how to use GCC and create a DLL, but my problem is that I don't know enough about the GNU compiler or makefiles, or the source code in general to be able to change it right now.
Does anybody have any clues on what exactly I'd need to change to get it right? Or even better, has anyone created a DLL using this source code already that would be able to pass it on to me, or let me know what I have to do?
Or could anyone point me towards a similar library that would be compatible with visual studio?
No; you can however build the .dll file with gcc and use the .dll from msvc (with either a hand-crafted include file or a properly formatted one from the beginning, with platform specific import/export macros on top).
I intend to distribute an F# program as both binary and source so the user has the option of recompiling it if desired. On Windows, I understand how to do this: provide .fsproj and .sln files, which both Visual Studio and MSBuild can understand.
On Linux, the traditional solution for C programs is a makefile. This depends on gcc being directly available, which it always is.
The F# compiler can be installed on Linux and works under Mono, so that's fine so far. However, as far as I can tell, it doesn't create a scenario where fsc runs the compiler, instead the command is mono ...path.../fsc.exe. This is also fine, except I don't know what the path is going to be. So the full command to run the compiler in my case could be mono ~/FSharp-2.0.0.0/bin/fsc.exe types.fs tptp.fs main.fs -r FSharp.PowerPack.dll except that I'm not sure where fsc.exe will actually be located on the user's machine.
Is there a way to find that out within a makefile, or would it be better to fall back on just explaining the above in the documentation and relying on the user to modify the command according to his setup?
If you don't want to use autoconf just write up README and say us how to setup tools to compile your program.
For example, you can require as to use binfmt_misc kernel module to allow system to automatically use right starter program for files with known format as to $PATH must contain path to fsc.exe, so your Makefile simply will be like following code:
FILES=types.fs tptp.fs main.fs
target.exe: ${FILES}
fsc.exe -o $# ${FILES} -r FSharp.PowerPack.dll
Or you can allow user to point to compiler by using makefile variables:
MONO=/usr/bin/mono
FSC=/usr/local/fsharp/bin/fsc.exe
COMPILER=${MONO} ${FSC}
FILES=types.fs tptp.fs main.fs
target.exe: ${FILES}
${COMPILER} -o $# ${FILES} -r FSharp.PowerPack.dll