Re: [Gcl-devel] Windows GCL 2.6.1 compiler bug?

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!  Any thoughts, on this, Mike?

Take care,

"Bill Page" <address@hidden> writes:

> > On Tuesday, October 21, 2003 4:24 PM
> > Bill Page wrote:
> > 
> > GCL developers;
> > 
> > While attempting to compile Axiom under Windows I get the 
> > following error message during compilation within GCL. Is 
> > there a GCL bug here or am I doing something wrong? A copy of 
> > the file boothdr.lisp is attached.
> > 
> 
> Ahh, I have found my error. GCL for windows requires
> gcc 3.3.1 (which is included in the GCL binary distribution)
> but I had previously installed MSYS/MinGW with a slightly
> older version of gcc 3.2. Apparently when GCL runs the
> C compiler it only refers to it as 'gcc' and gcc 3.2 was
> the first one in the path. gcc 3.2 does not support the
> required -fno-zero-initialized-in-bss option.
> 
> Perhaps GCL on windows should make specific reference to
> the version of gcc that it installs. Or better, perhaps the
> ./configure could detect whether you already have a previous
> version of gcc installed, the way I presume that it does
> under linux.
> 
> Cheers,
> Bill Page.
> 
> > 
> > ---------
> > 
> > GCL (GNU Common Lisp)  (2.6.1) Fri Sep 19 10:41:07 EAST 2003 
> > Licensed under GNU Library General Public License Dedicated 
> > to the memory of W. Schelter
> > 
> > Use (help) to get some basic information on how to use GCL.
> > 
> > >(compile-file "boothdr.lisp")
> > 
> > Compiling boothdr.lisp.
> > End of Pass 1.  
> > End of Pass 2.  
> > cc1.exe: unrecognized option `-fno-zero-initialized-in-bss'
> > 
> > Error: (SYSTEM "gcc -c -fno-zero-initialized-in-bss -Wall 
> > -fwritable-strings -DVOL=volatile -fsigned-char -mcpu=i386 
> > -march=i386 -Ic:/lang/gcl261/lib/gcl-2.6.1/unixport/../h  -O2 
> > -fomit-frame-pointer -c -w boothdr.c -o boothdr.o") returned 
> > a non-zero value 1. Fast links are on: do (si::use-fast-links 
> > nil) for debugging Error signalled by UNLESS. Broken at 
> > CERROR.  Type :H for Help.
> > BOOTTRAN>>
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