[Expat-bugs] [ expat-Bugs-621797 ] Expat 1.95-5 build failure under Cygwin

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Bugs item #621797, was opened at 2002-10-11 06:07
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Category: Build control
Group: Platform Specific
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
>Assigned to: Gerrit Haase (siebenschlaefer)
Summary: Expat 1.95-5 build failure under Cygwin

Initial Comment:
Attempting to build expat 1.95-5 under cygwin fails
with the following: 

"/usr/lib/libcygwin.a(libcmain.o)(.text+0x81):
undefined reference to `WinMain@16'"

Full info from configure & make

robertm@CLEMFAR ~/expat-1.95.5
$ ./configure
checking build system type... i686-pc-cygwin
checking host system type... i686-pc-cygwin
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output... a.exe
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables... .exe
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking for ld used by GCC...
/usr/i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld.exe
checking if the linker (/usr/i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld.exe)
is GNU ld... yes
checking for /usr/i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld.exe option to
reload object files... -r
checking for BSD-compatible nm... /usr/bin/nm -B
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking how to recognise dependant libraries...
file_magic file format pei*-i386(.*architecture: i386)?
checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output... ok
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... no
checking for stdint.h... no
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking dlfcn.h usability... yes
checking dlfcn.h presence... yes
checking for dlfcn.h... yes
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for strip... strip
checking for objdir... .libs
checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -DDLL_EXPORT
checking if gcc PIC flag -DDLL_EXPORT works... yes
checking if gcc static flag -static works... yes
checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes
checking if gcc supports -c -o file.lo... yes
checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... yes
checking whether the linker
(/usr/i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld.exe) supports shared
libraries... yes
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs...
immediate
checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes
checking dynamic linker characteristics... Win32 ld.exe
checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build static libraries... yes
creating libtool
checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler...
(cached) yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... (cached)
none needed
checking for a BSD-compatible install...
/usr/bin/install -c
checking whether gcc accepts -fexceptions... yes
checking for ANSI C header files... (cached) yes
checking fcntl.h usability... yes
checking fcntl.h presence... yes
checking for fcntl.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... no
checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes
checking for off_t... yes
checking for size_t... yes
checking for working memcmp... yes
checking for stdlib.h... (cached) yes
checking for unistd.h... (cached) yes
checking for getpagesize... yes
checking for working mmap... no
checking for memmove... yes
checking for bcopy... yes
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating expat_config.h

robertm@CLEMFAR ~/expat-1.95.5
$ make
/bin/bash ./libtool --silent --mode=compile gcc -g -O2
-Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes
-fexceptions   -I./lib -I. -o lib/xmlparse.lo -c
lib/xmlparse.c
/bin/bash ./libtool --silent --mode=compile gcc -g -O2
-Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes
-fexceptions   -I./lib -I. -o lib/xmltok.lo -c lib/xmltok.c
/bin/bash ./libtool --silent --mode=compile gcc -g -O2
-Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes
-fexceptions   -I./lib -I. -o lib/xmlrole.lo -c
lib/xmlrole.c
/bin/bash ./libtool --silent --mode=link gcc -g -O2
-Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes
-fexceptions   -I./lib -I. -no-undefined -version-info
4:0:4 -rpath /usr/local/lib  -o libexpat.la
lib/xmlparse.lo lib/xmltok.lo lib/xmlrole.lo
/usr/lib/libcygwin.a(libcmain.o)(.text+0x81): undefined
reference to `WinMain@16'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [libexpat.la] Error 1


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>Comment By: Fred L. Drake, Jr. (fdrake)
Date: 2002-10-11 09:10

Message:
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Re-assigned to the CygWin expert.

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