Compiling taglib 1.5 under mingw and msys fails

[Neil Potter]

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Hi,

I am having problems building the 1.5 release of TabLib using mingw under msys.

I downloaded the release and uncompressed/tar to a directory. I then followed the instructions in the INSTALL file - however the build fails.

I did manage to build taglib 1.4 under msys/ming however the tags it is writing are causing problems for several different applications (which do support ID 3v2 tags) - which is why I would like to try a more up-to-date version (my application is being developed under msys in order to allow me to port it to Linux).

Output from configure and make are included at the bottom of the email.
./configure seems to give a few error/warning messages but it does succeed - however if I then run make that fails.

After inspecting the configure output, I took a look at conf.change.pl - however I don't know perl nor do I understand what the script is trying to do.

I am running GNU automake 1.10.1 and GNU Autoconf 2.61.
Any advice/assistance would be much appreciated as I am not really sure where to go from here.

Thanks,

Neil.

======= Configure output begins =======
$ ./configure

checking build system type... i686-pc-mingw32
checking host system type... i686-pc-mingw32
checking target system type... i686-pc-mingw32
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /bin/install -c
checking for -p flag to install... yes
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... 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 ISO C89... none needed
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for g++... g++
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes
checking dependency style of g++... gcc3
checking whether gcc is blacklisted... no
checking whether g++ supports -Wundef... yes
checking whether g++ supports -Wno-long-long... yes
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checking whether g++ supports -fno-reorder-blocks... yes
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checking whether system headers can cope with -O2 -fno-inline... irrelevant
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checking whether g++ supports -O0... yes
./configure: ldd: command not found
not using lib directory suffix
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checking for ld used by gcc... c:/mingw/mingw32/bin/ld.exe
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checking for c:/mingw/mingw32/bin/ld.exe option to reload object files... -r
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checking whether ln -s works... no, using cp -p
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checking command to parse /mingw/bin/nm output from gcc object... ok
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checking if gcc PIC flag -DDLL_EXPORT works... yes
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checking dynamic linker characteristics... Win32 ld.exe
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes
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configure: creating libtool
appending configuration tag "CXX" to libtool
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checking if bindings should be compiled... yes
checking if examples should be compiled... yes
checking if taglib should be compiled... yes
checking if tests should be compiled... yes
configure: creating ./config.status
wrong input (flag != 4) at admin/conf.change.pl line 117, <> line 1127.
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating bindings/Makefile
config.status: creating bindings/c/Makefile
config.status: creating examples/Makefile
config.status: creating taglib/Makefile
config.status: creating taglib/ape/Makefile
config.status: creating taglib/flac/Makefile
config.status: creating taglib/mpc/Makefile
config.status: creating taglib/mpeg/Makefile
config.status: creating taglib/mpeg/id3v1/Makefile
config.status: creating taglib/mpeg/id3v2/Makefile
config.status: creating taglib/mpeg/id3v2/frames/Makefile
config.status: creating taglib/ogg/Makefile
config.status: creating taglib/ogg/flac/Makefile
config.status: creating taglib/ogg/speex/Makefile
config.status: creating taglib/ogg/vorbis/Makefile
config.status: creating taglib/toolkit/Makefile
config.status: creating taglib/trueaudio/Makefile
config.status: creating taglib/wavpack/Makefile
config.status: creating tests/Makefile
config.status: creating taglib-config
config.status: creating taglib.pc
config.status: creating bindings/c/taglib_c.pc
config.status: creating config.h
config.status: executing depfiles commands

Good - your configure finished. Start make now
======= configure output ends =======


======= Make output =======
$ make
make  all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/d/cprojs/taglib-1.5'
Making all in taglib
make[2]: Entering directory `/d/cprojs/taglib-1.5/taglib'
Making all in toolkit
make[3]: Entering directory `/d/cprojs/taglib-1.5/taglib/toolkit'
/bin/sh ../../libtool --silent --tag=CXX   --mode=compile g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -I../../taglib     -Wno-long-long -Wundef -Wall -W -Wpointer-arith -O2 -Wno-non-virtual-dtor -fno-exceptions -fno-check-new -fno-common -fexceptions  -MT tstring.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/tstring.Tpo -c -o tstring.lo tstring.cpp
tstring.cpp:74: error: definition of static data member 'TagLib::String::null' of dllimport'd class
tstring.cpp:305: warning: non-inline function 'TagLib::String TagLib::String::substr(TagLib::uint, TagLib::uint) const' is defined after prior declaration as dllimport: attribute ignored
tstring.cpp:305: warning: 'TagLib::String TagLib::String::substr(TagLib::uint, TagLib::uint) const' defined locally after being referenced with dllimport linkage
tstring.cpp:343: warning: non-inline function 'TagLib::uint TagLib::String::length() const' is defined after prior declaration as dllimport: attribute ignored
tstring.cpp:343: warning: 'TagLib::uint TagLib::String::length() const' defined locally after being referenced with dllimport linkage
tstring.cpp:522: warning: non-inline function 'bool TagLib::String::operator==(const TagLib::String&) const' is defined after prior declaration as dllimport: attribute ignored
tstring.cpp:522: warning: 'bool TagLib::String::operator==(const TagLib::String&) const' defined locally after being referenced with dllimport linkage
tstring.cpp:552: warning: non-inline function 'TagLib::String& TagLib::String::operator+=(wchar_t)' is defined after prior declaration as dllimport: attribute ignored
tstring.cpp:552: warning: 'TagLib::String& TagLib::String::operator+=(wchar_t)' defined locally after being referenced with dllimport linkage
tstring.cpp:560: warning: non-inline function 'TagLib::String& TagLib::String::operator+=(char)' is defined after prior declaration as dllimport: attribute ignored
tstring.cpp:560: warning: 'TagLib::String& TagLib::String::operator+=(char)' defined locally after being referenced with dllimport linkage
tstring.cpp:682: warning: non-inline function 'void TagLib::String::detach()' is defined after prior declaration as dllimport: attribute ignored
tstring.cpp:682: warning: 'void TagLib::String::detach()' defined locally after being referenced with dllimport linkage
tstring.cpp:694: warning: non-inline function 'void TagLib::String::prepare(TagLib::String::Type)' is defined after prior declaration as dllimport: attribute ignored
tstring.cpp:694: warning: 'void TagLib::String::prepare(TagLib::String::Type)' defined locally after being referenced with dllimport linkage
tstring.cpp: In member function `TagLib::uint TagLib::String::length() const':
tstring.cpp:338: warning: non-inline function 'TagLib::uint TagLib::String::size() const' is defined after prior declaration as dllimport: attribute ignored
tstring.cpp: In function `std::ostream& operator<<(std::ostream&, const TagLib::String&)':
tstring.cpp:206: warning: non-inline function 'std::string TagLib::String::to8Bit(bool) const' is defined after prior declaration as dllimport: attribute ignored
tstring.cpp: In static member function `static TagLib::String TagLib::String::number(int)':
tstring.cpp:83: warning: non-inline function 'TagLib::String::String(const TagLib::String&)' is defined after prior declaration as dllimport: attribute ignored
tstring.cpp: In function `const TagLib::String operator+(const TagLib::String&, const char*)':
tstring.cpp:315: warning: non-inline function 'TagLib::String& TagLib::String::append(const TagLib::String&)' is defined after prior declaration as dllimport: attribute ignored
tstring.cpp: In member function `TagLib::String TagLib::String::stripWhiteSpace() const':
tstring.cpp:110: warning: non-inline function 'TagLib::String::String(const TagLib::wstring&, TagLib::String::Type)' is defined after prior declaration as dllimport: attribute ignored
make[3]: *** [tstring.lo] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/d/cprojs/taglib-1.5/taglib/toolkit'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/d/cprojs/taglib-1.5/taglib'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/d/cprojs/taglib-1.5'
make: *** [all] Error 2

======= Make output ends =======

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[Lukáš Lalinský]

On Ne, 2008-04-06 at 19:29 +0100, Neil Potter wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am having problems building the 1.5 release of TabLib using mingw
> under msys.
>
> I downloaded the release and uncompressed/tar to a directory. I then
> followed the instructions in the INSTALL file - however the build
> fails.
>
> I did manage to build taglib 1.4 under msys/ming however the tags it
> is writing are causing problems for several different applications
> (which do support ID 3v2 tags) - which is why I would like to try a
> more up-to-date version (my application is being developed under msys
> in order to allow me to port it to Linux).
>
> Output from configure and make are included at the bottom of the
> email.
> ./configure seems to give a few error/warning messages but it does
> succeed - however if I then run make that fails.
>
> After inspecting the configure output, I took a look at conf.change.pl
> - however I don't know perl nor do I understand what the script is
> trying to do.
>
> I am running GNU automake 1.10.1 and GNU Autoconf 2.61.
> Any advice/assistance would be much appreciated as I am not really
> sure where to go from here.

The automake/autoconf based build system was never ported to Windows.
The build needs a MAKE_TAGLIB_LIB macro to be defined, in order to
export DLL symbols, rather than trying to import them. You can either
patch one of the automake files to define this macro, or better, use
CMake.

Lukas



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