[Development] tools/configure with mingw build error

Peter Kümmel syntheticpp at gmx.net
Tue Aug 28 20:46:01 CEST 2012


On 28.08.2012 19:59, marius.storm-olsen at nokia.com wrote:
> On 28/08/2012 12:48, ext Peter Kümmel wrote:
>> On 28.08.2012 19:27, marius.storm-olsen at nokia.com wrote:
>>> On 28/08/2012 12:16, ext Peter Kümmel wrote:
>>>> Have I missed something or is building with mingw in cmd.exe not supported?
>>>
>>> This is not your fault, it's the rubenvb release which is broken, as the
>>> GNU Make tool provided is not properly splitting the file paths. Thus,
>>> mingw32-make is trying to stat the wrong files and cannot find all the
>>> files required.
>>>
>>> If you're feeling adventurous, I've found that you can do a binary patch
>>> by simply replacing the pattern 0x003a3b00 with 0x003b3b00 in
>>> mingw32-make.exe, and it should do the path splitting correctly and find
>>> the required files.
>>>
>>> Note that this is just a work-around, and Ruben will have to correct the
>>> way he cross-compiles the MinGW tools.
>>>
>>> See
>>> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3545000&group_id=202880&atid=983354
>>> for details.
>>
>> Ahh thanks.
>>
>> But also jom fails, I thought jom could also handle mingw makefiles?
>
> No, Jom only handles NMake makefiles, afaik.
>

Checked it again: I could build qt/4.8 with jom.

So I would say the Makefiles in Qt5 are broken (at least for configure).

Peter



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