Hi Richard,
I am trying to build CLN for windows 64 bit. ... libtool: compile: x86_64-w64-mingw32.static-g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../autoconf -I../include -I../src -I../include -I../src -g -O2 -MT base/cl_as_exception.lo -MD -MP -MF base/.deps/cl_as_exception.Tpo -c base/cl_as_exception.cc -o base/cl_as_exception.o libtool: compile: x86_64-w64-mingw32.static-g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../autoconf -I../include -I../src -I../include -I../src -g -O2 -MT base/cl_condition.lo -MD -MP -MF base/.deps/cl_condition.Tpo -c base/cl_condition.cc -o base/cl_condition.o In file included from ./base/cl_sysdep.h:10:0, from base/cl_alloca.cc:4: ../include/cln/intparam.h:26:2: error: #error "Type char * does not fit into a long!!" #error "Type char * does not fit into a long!!"
This is now fixed in the git repository. 64-bit mingw is supported, except for one problem: libtool refuses to build the shared library. 64-bit MSVC is nearly supported. The currently blocking issue is some problem with cl_asm.S.
I'm actually doing this by cross-compiling form linux using M Cross Environment (see www.mxe.cc for more information).
The supported build environments are detailed in the file 'INSTALL.windows'. Cross-compilation is not supported, but you may succeed in getting it to work with little effort, given that there are only few AC_TRY_RUN invocations in the configure script. You do so by presetting some of the cl_cv_* variables in the environment before launching the configure script.
I noticed in a thread from eight years ago that this same problem existed back then:
Yeah, we (Richy, Alexey, me) were not very active on this front for several years. Your mail finally has prompted me to work on this.
Is it a huge amount of work to fix this?
It was about 2 days of work. Bruno