Re: Building on MinGW using MXE-built dependencies [WAS: Re: mxe-installer try 2]

[Philip Nienhuis]

John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 06/11/2013 04:18 PM, Philip Nienhuis wrote:
>
> > On my list is finding out how to build using mxe-octave on Windows 7
> > 64-bit,
>
> I'm starting to try the same thing now, so maybe we can help each other
> and make it work.
>
>  > as that runs on my fastest dev box (the build I referred to runs
> > on an older Core Duo desktop).
> > I consistently get configure messages that "gcc cannot build
> > executables", with the log mentioning that ld cannot find a.o.,
> > -ladvapi32. Now, advapi32.dll and friends are in the C:\Windows\system32
> > dir which *is* in the MinGW PATH as /c/windows/system32. I've
> > experimented with LDFLAGS and other tricks to no avail :-) Google didn't
> > turn up a solution yet.
> > I think this is a very MinGW-specific issue.
>
> This is with the 64-bit mingw and tools? Why is it trying to link with
> advapi32? If that is normal, then where is that dependency coming from?
> Is it explicitly listed in some Makefiles?

Turns out a "mingw-get mingw32-gcc" fixed it. That installed a load of 
dependencies I apparently overlooked and skipped. mxe-octave just 
succeeded building bison, now it is building cmake (on Win7 64-bit).
Tomorrow morning I'll check the results.

Philip