The following snippet from Gnulib's unistd.h causes a compilation error when building the current development version of GDB 11:
#if @GNULIB_MDA_SWAB@ /* On native Windows, map 'swab' to '_swab', so that -loldnames is not required. In C++ with GNULIB_NAMESPACE, avoid differences between platforms by defining GNULIB_NAMESPACE::creat always. */ # if defined _WIN32 && !defined __CYGWIN__ # if !(defined __cplusplus && defined GNULIB_NAMESPACE) # undef swab # define swab _swab # endif _GL_CXXALIAS_MDA (swab, void, (char *from, char *to, int n)); # else _GL_CXXALIAS_SYS (swab, void, (const void *from, void *to, ssize_t n)); # endif _GL_CXXALIASWARN (swab); #endif The problem is that mingw.org's MinGW uses a slightly different prototype of _swab: _CRTIMP __cdecl __MINGW_NOTHROW void _swab (const char *, char *, size_t); So the difference between the prototypes causes this compilation error in C++ programs: CXX unittests/string_view-selftests.o In file included from ./../gdbsupport/common-defs.h:86, from ./defs.h:28, from unittests/string_view-selftests.c:26: ./../gnulib/import/unistd.h: In member function 'gnulib::_gl_swab_wrapper::operator gnulib::_gl_swab_wrapper::type() const': ./../gnulib/import/unistd.h:2543:1: error: invalid conversion from 'void (__attribute__((cdecl)) *)(const char*, char*, size_t)' {aka 'void (__attribute__((cdecl)) *)(const char*, char*, unsigned int)'} to 'gnulib::_gl_swab_wrapper::type' {aka 'void (*)(char*, char*, int)'} [-fpermissive] 2543 | _GL_CXXALIAS_MDA (swab, void, (char *from, char *to, int n)); | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | | | void (__attribute__((cdecl)) *)(const char*, char*, size_t) {aka void (__attribute__((cdecl)) *)(const char*, char*, unsigned int)} The suggested fix is as follows (__MINGW32_VERSION is defined by mingw.org's MinGW, but not by MinGW64): --- unistd.h~ 2021-03-29 09:15:08.782625000 +0300 +++ unistd.h 2021-03-29 10:19:46.485750000 +0300 @@ -2540,7 +2540,11 @@ _GL_WARN_ON_USE (sleep, "sleep is unport # undef swab # define swab _swab # endif +# if defined __MINGW32_VERSION +_GL_CXXALIAS_MDA (swab, void, (const char *from, char *to, size_t n)); +# else _GL_CXXALIAS_MDA (swab, void, (char *from, char *to, int n)); +# endif # else _GL_CXXALIAS_SYS (swab, void, (const void *from, void *to, ssize_t n)); # endif