On 21.07.2016 12:55, Michael Stahl wrote: > On 20.07.2016 21:18, Bunth Tamás wrote: >> The patch: >> https://gerrit.libreoffice.org//25673/ >> >> has an error on Windows (patch set 42): >> LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file 'tommath.lib' >> >> I think it's because I created tommath.lib using the ar linux command, >> and the result is slightly different from the .lib file that msvc >> expects.[1][2]
indeed, Cygwin's ar can't be used. >> I would have liked to use lib.exe to create tommath.lib instead, which >> seems to be the tool on Windows to create a .lib file, but I couldn't >> find the appropriate makefile marco to use it (like the LD variable >> stores the path of link.exe), since the variable AR stores "ar" in >> case of Windows too. sorry, sent this too early totally missing your question: if the AR variable is the only problem, just pass in AR=path-to-lib.exe from the ExternalProject_*.mk... probably that's $(COMPATH)/bin/lib.exe, maybe it's necessary to use "cygpath" too, see gb_AUTOCONF_WRAPPERS for how it's done with LD currently. >> Am I right about the cause of the issue, and if so, how can I refer to >> lib.exe to use it for creating tommath.lib? > > looking at com_MSC_class.mk, the command to link a static library goes > like this: link.exe -LIB ***.obj -out:foo.lib > > are you using the autoconf_wrappers? then the variable LD points to > link.exe (not to gcc-wrapper.exe) so if tommath makefiles use "$(LD) > -lib" to link you might have some success, but of course there's no > mapping of unix-ld-flags to link.exe flags in this case since link.exe > is directly invoked... > > perhaps try overriding LD="$(CXX) -lib" or something along those lines - > there is some translation of unix-ld-flags in gcc-wrapper.exe, see the > function "processccargs". > > the gcc-wrappers were intended to be called by autoconf tests and by > libtool, if your project doesn't use libtool i'm not sure they will > translate all of the parameters used etc. _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
