Re: [bug-gettext] Compiled Gettext Binaries are Corrupted

Thank you for the reply Bruno. I understand that it is not supported. I've sent a help request there to the MSYS2 project as well. Just hoping I can get more exposure/insight from the Gettext/GNU community. If I can't get this to work, I will try compiling using a supported set of tools on Win32.

Not sure that it shows anything helpful, but this is the config.log for 0.20.1:

This file contains any messages produced by compilers while
running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.

It was created by gettext configure 0.20.1, which was
generated by GNU Autoconf 2.69. Invocation command line was

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This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason.
configure:2498: $? = 0
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GrepMe
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configure:2669: checking host system type
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configure:3363: checking that generated files are newer than configure
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configure:3377: creating ./config.status

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on DESKTOP-23IIIE7

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configure: exit 0

On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 3:39 PM Bruno Haible <address@hidden> wrote:

Jordan Irwin wrote:
> I have tried compiling both version 0.19.8.1 & 0.20.1 on my Windows system.
> 0.20.1 compiled successfully, but the executables *msgfmt.exe*,
> *msgmerge.exe*, & *xgettext.exe* all segfault. So, I decided to try
> downgrading to v0.19.8.1. This one fails ...

Version 0.20.1 is the one to look at. There have been many Windows-specific
fixes between 0.19.8.1 and 0.20.1; I won't explain them here one-by-one.

> I am on Windows 10 64-bit compiling under the MSYS2/MinGW-w64 environment
> <https://www.msys2.org/>. Any help is much appreciated.

Read the INSTALL.windows file. You will see that the MSYS2 build environment
is not supported. Choose one of the supported ones.

Note also that Michele Locati provides precompiled binaries of GNU gettext
for Windows, at
https://github.com/mlocati/gettext-iconv-windows
https://github.com/mlocati/gettext-iconv-windows/releases
https://mlocati.github.io/articles/gettext-iconv-windows.html

Bruno

From:	Jordan Irwin
Subject:	Re: [bug-gettext] Compiled Gettext Binaries are Corrupted
Date:	Tue, 20 Aug 2019 15:52:15 -0700