[egenix-users] Anyone successfully compiled mxTextTools beta5 with MingW32?

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Mike C. Fletcher wrote:
> I've been poking at this problem for a while now, basically, my attempts 
> always fail with this error:
> 
> c:\bin\cygwin\bin\gcc.exe -mno-cygwin -mdll -static -s 
> build\temp.win32-2.2\Release\mx\TextTools\mxTextTools\mxTextTools\mxtexttools.o 
> build\temp.win32-2.2\Release\mx\TextTools\mxTextTools\mxTextTools\mxte.o 
> build\temp.win32-2.2\Release\mx\TextTools\mxTextTools\mxTextTools\mxbmse.o 
> build\temp.win32-2.2\Release\mx\TextTools\mxTextTools\mxTextTools\mxTextTools.def 
> -LC:\bin\lang\py22\libs -L/lib -lpython22 -o 
> build\lib.win32-2.2\mx\TextTools\mxTextTools\mxTextTools.pyd
> build\temp.win32-2.2\Release\mx\TextTools\mxTextTools\mxTextTools\mxte.o(.text+0x1b74):mxte.c: 
> undefined reference to `_imp__mxTagTable_Type'
> build\temp.win32-2.2\Release\mx\TextTools\mxTextTools\mxTextTools\mxte.o(.text+0x1bf0):mxte.c: 
> undefined reference to `_imp__mxTagTable_Type'
> build\temp.win32-2.2\Release\mx\TextTools\mxTextTools\mxTextTools\mxte.o(.text+0x2fb4):mxte.c: 
> undefined reference to `_imp__mxTagTable_Type'
> build\temp.win32-2.2\Release\mx\TextTools\mxTextTools\mxTextTools\mxte.o(.text+0x3030):mxte.c: 
> undefined reference to `_imp__mxTagTable_Type'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1
> 
> Which, is just about what VC++6 also complains about as well:
>    Creating library 
> build\temp.win32-2.2\Release\mx\TextTools\mxTextTools\mxTextTools\mxTextTools.lib 
> and object 
> build\temp.win32-2.2\Release\mx\TextTools\mxTextTools\mxTextTools\mxTextTools.exp 
> 
> LINK : warning LNK4049: locally defined symbol "_mxTagTable_Type" imported

Is this the latest beta you are testing here ?

http://lists.egenix.com/mailman-archives/egenix-users/2002-August/000078.html

It should be compatible to CYGWIN since Steve Holden has done a lot
of testing on that platform.

> Now, if I understand this problem correctly, the __declspec( dllexport ) 
> stuff that's defined in mxTextTools.h and mxh.h for mxTagTable_Type is 
> somehow making mxTagTable_Type wind up mangled as if it were a 
> dll-loaded function within mxte.c instead of a locally-defined but 
> exported one?  VC++ seems able to work about it, but not MingW32.
> 
> I'm not really a C/C++ guy, so I'm not sure what the _solution_ to the 
> problem would be.  All discussions I can find on the web about it seem 
> to assume it's such an obvious fix that there's no point describing it 
> :o/ .
> 
> Any suggestions welcome,
> Mike
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