[Ecls-list] ECL build failure on 64-bit windows 7 using mingw-w64 toolchain

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll
<juanjose.garciaripoll at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 11:56 AM, Gabriel Dos Reis
> <gdr at integrable-solutions.net> wrote:
>>
>> Unfortunately, it failed to execute properly, apparently for the
>> same reasons as 2 years ago.
>
>
> There were not so many things to fix after all:
>
> * the typo you found
> * missing :win64 keyword
> * typo in _ecl_big_set_fixnum()
> * wrong printf() statements in aclocal.m4

I guessed the crash had to do with the LLP ABI flavour
on the 64-bit Windows.  However, I was away from
imagining the root cause of the last two items on the list.

>
> With all these, ECL seems to build fine on mingw32. The configuration step
> is not the one you showed, but
>
> ./src/configure --prefix=... --build=x86_86-w64-mingw32
>
> One needs to download and build separately the following components:
> libatomic_ops (https://github.com/ivmai/libatomic_ops) , boehm-weiser
> garbage collector (https://github.com/ivmai/bdwgc), and gmp 5.0.5 (stable
> release).
>
> None of those libraries, as shipped with ECL, build on 64-bits/mingw.
> Unfortunately I cannot upgrade them because then other ports would be
> broken, and also because the required versions are unstable.

libatomic_ops that ships with ECL builds fine for me.
I am stuck with CVS on windows machine.
[ I do not want msysgit to mess with my gcc setup on my machine. ]

Otherwise, ECL seems now to build.  I have not tested yet with OpenAxiom.

-- Gaby