Re: MSYS2 build problem

[Frederik Seiffert]

Hi Daniel,

This should work as we’re building Base with MSYS2 successfully on Travis CI.

Maybe you installed some extra package that is causing this? I’d try with a fresh MSYS2 installation and installing just the packages we install on CI:

https://github.com/gnustep/libs-base/blob/1b7bf26beaaafb76325471780c55d36824a35889/.travis.yml#L78-L92

Also make sure you’re building from a MinGW shell, not MSYS2.

Frederik

Am 09.12.2020 um 17:59 schrieb Daniel Boyd <danieljboyd@icloud.com>:

I am following the instructions on the web site for building in MSYS2 and I’m running into an error with the libffi library.

 

These are the instructions I’m using

http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/Installation_MSYS2

 

and this is the error I get running ./configure for base

checking FFI library usage...       0 [main] conftest (34696) child_copy: cyghea

p read copy failed, 0x18034B408..0x180364FC8, done 0, windows pid 34696, Win32 e

rror 6

   2486 [main] conftest (34696) C:\msys64\home\dboyd\git\libs-base\conftest.exe:

*** fatal error - ccalloc would have returned NULL

configure: error: The ffi library (libffi) does not appear to be working.  Perha

ps it's missing or you need a more recent version.  Version 3.0.9 or later shoul

d work, and you can find a link to it n the list of packages for download at htt

p://www.gnustep.org/resources/sources.html

 

libffi appeared to install without any issues with pacman