[GRASS-dev] Compile errors - dllmain and fmode - releasebranch_6_4 and develbranch_6

[Glynn Clements]

Markus Neteler wrote:

> >> Lots of compile errors on make on my vista machine (using mingw/msys
> >> not osgeo4w). This is the first one, from lib/datetime:
> >>
> >> gcc -shared -o /usr/local/src/grass-6.4_release/dist.i686-pc-mingw32/lib/libgrass_datetime.6.4.0svn.dll
> >> -L/usr/local/src/grass-6.4_release/dist.i686-pc-mingw32/lib
> >> -Wl,--export-dynamic,--enable-runtime-pseudo-reloc  -L/usr/local/lib
> >> -L/usr/local/pgsql/lib   OBJ.i686-pc-mingw32/between.o
> >> OBJ.i686-pc-mingw32/copy.o OBJ.i686-pc-mingw32/same.o
> >> OBJ.i686-pc-mingw32/diff.o OBJ.i686-pc-mingw32/error.o
> >> OBJ.i686-pc-mingw32/format.o OBJ.i686-pc-mingw32/incr1.o
> >> OBJ.i686-pc-mingw32/incr2.o OBJ.i686-pc-mingw32/incr3.o
> >> OBJ.i686-pc-mingw32/local.o OBJ.i686-pc-mingw32/misc.o
> >> OBJ.i686-pc-mingw32/change.o OBJ.i686-pc-mingw32/scan.o
> >> OBJ.i686-pc-mingw32/sign.o OBJ.i686-pc-mingw32/type.o
> >> OBJ.i686-pc-mingw32/tz1.o OBJ.i686-pc-mingw32/tz2.o
> >> OBJ.i686-pc-mingw32/values.o
> >> ../../lib/gis/OBJ.i686-pc-mingw32/dllmain.o && \
> >>         (cd /usr/local/src/grass-6.4_release/dist.i686-pc-mingw32/lib;
> >> ln -f -s libgrass_datetime.6.4.0svn.dll
> >> /usr/local/src/grass-6.4_release/dist.i686-pc-mingw32/lib/libgrass_datetime.dll)
> >> gcc.exe: ../../lib/gis/OBJ.i686-pc-mingw32/dllmain.o: No such file or directory
> >> make: *** [/usr/local/src/grass-6.4_release/dist.i686-pc-mingw32/lib/libgrass_datetime.6.4.0svn.dll]
> >> Error 1
> >>
> >> and from lib/gis:
> >> make: *** No rule to make target
> >> `../../lib/gis/OBJ.i686-pc-mingw32/dllmain.o', needed by `default'.
> >> Stop.
> >>
> >> The errors seem to be related to the dllmain and fmode problems from
> >> ticket #469 <http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/469>, but they seem to
> >> affect only the versions post-fix. While releasebranch_6_4 and
> >> develbranch_6 have make errors, releasebranch_6_3 doesn't have these
> >> errors.
> >
> > It appears that someone committed only half of the fix with r35770.
> 
> The fixes were
> - 6.4.svn  (r35767, r35769)
> - 6.4.0svn (r35768, r35770)
> 
> > [Probably because a complete fix doesn't exist; the change implies
> > that dllmain.c would be part of lib/gis, but lib/datetime is built
> > first.]
> 
> What is exactly missing?

dllmain.c.

But hang on: DLLMAIN_OBJ doesn't appear to be defined anywhere in
develbranch_6.

Never mind. Someone who actually has the relevant versions checked out
will need to look into this. I think I'm just going to stick to 7.x
from now on.

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>