Re: Windows Cross build fails because pspp executable is required during build

[Friedrich Beckmann]

Is it a big deal to produce the examples only for the doc target?

> Am 17.11.2020 um 17:51 schrieb Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>:
> 
> For the specific case of cross-building Windows on GNU/Linux, it could
> also work to install Wine. Many of the tests work OK that way, for
> example.
> 
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 5:02 AM John Darrington
> <john@darrington.wattle.id.au> wrote:
>> 
>> We're now using the pspp binary to generate its own documentation.  So
>> the documentation cannot work when cross building.  I can think of 3
>> things we could do:
>> 
>> 1.  Like Fritz suggests, ship the generated files in the tarball.
>> 2.  Don't generate any documentation when cross building.
>> 3.  For cross builds, also build a native binary and generate the
>>    documentation using that.
>> 
>> All of these solutions have their own (de)merits.
>> 
>> J'
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 07:20:22AM +0100, Friedrich Beckmann wrote:
>>     Hi,
>> 
>>     i completely forgot that the windows build is a cross build, i.e. 
>> pspp.exe can of course not be executed on the build machine. The current 
>> build process fails with
>> 
>>     ====
>>     (cd ./examples \
>>              && 
>> /home/pspp/pspp-master-20201117/pspp-1.5.2-gc04cd4/src/ui/terminal/pspp.exe 
>> ../doc/examples/autorecode.sps -o - -O format=spv) > 
>> doc/examples/autorecode.spv.tmp
>>     /bin/sh: line 1: 
>> /home/pspp/pspp-master-20201117/pspp-1.5.2-gc04cd4/src/ui/terminal/pspp.exe: 
>> cannot execute binary file: Fehler im Format der Programmdatei
>>     make[2]: *** [Makefile:14217: doc/examples/autorecode.spv] Error 126
>>     make[2]: Leaving directory 
>> '/home/pspp/pspp-master-20201117/pspp-1.5.2-gc04cd4'
>>     make[1]: *** [Makefile:12303: all-recursive] Error 1
>>     make[1]: Leaving directory 
>> '/home/pspp/pspp-master-20201117/pspp-1.5.2-gc04cd4'
>>     make: *** [Makefile:6401: all] Error 2
>>     Uncaught exception from user code:
>>        system 'Mingw32-make'  failed: 512 at ./buildpspp4windows.pl line 
>> 568, <FILE> line 937.
>>        main::ProcMake() called at ./buildpspp4windows.pl line 369
>>        main::ProcGeneratePSPP("w32", "Debug") called at 
>> ./buildpspp4windows.pl line 124
>>     program finished with exit code 2
>>     elapsedTime=419.754343
>> 
>>     ===
>> 
>>     While executing a simple „make“
>> 
>>     
>> https://github.com/fredowski/pspp-buildbot/blob/master/win/buildpspp4windows.pl#L568
>> 
>>     Any ideas how this can be avoided? Aren’t this examples for the 
>> documentation, i.e. could that be part of the doc target?
>> 
>>     http://caeis.etech.fh-augsburg.de:8010/#/builders/7/builds/95
>> 
>>     Fritz
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>