[m-users.] users Digest, Vol 37, Issue 9

[Noah Scott Goldman]

Oh, OK. Is there a workaround? Was the issue ever resolved?

On 2016-08-21 22:53, Julien Fischer wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, 20 Aug 2016, Noah Scott Goldman wrote:
>
>> OK, so this time when I ran it, the installation seemed to work. In 
>> the MSYS2 MinGW-w64 environment, I ran
>>
>> $ ./configure --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32 --with-cc=gcc 
>> --enable-minimal-install
>>
>> $ make
>>
>> $ make PARALLEL=-j2 install
>>
>> The installation terminated, it seems. But when I try to use the 
>> compiler...
>>
>> $ mmc --make --verbose hello
>> % Creating initialization file...
>> % Invoking system command `mkinit  -g asm_fast.gc      -o 
>> Mercury\cs\hello_init.c.tmp -I 
>> C:\Berocked\MSYS2\mingw64\lib\mercury\modules\asm_fast.gc -f
>> C:\Berocked\MSYS2\tmp\mtmp001296'...
>> % done.
>> % Updating interface:
>> % Mercury\cs\hello_init.c' has not changed.
>> Making hello.exe
>> % Linking...
>> % Invoking system command `ar @C:\Berocked\MSYS2\tmp\mtmp00129C'...
>> ar: C:\Berocked\MSYS2\tmp\00129A.a: File format not recognized
>> % done.
>> ** Error making `hello.exe'.
>>
>> Should I just proceed with the full installation, or is there 
>> something wrong with my compiler?
>
> It's likely a bug in Mercury, most likely the second issue discussed in
> the following thread:
> <http://lists.mercurylang.org/archives/developers/2016-May/016574.html>.
>
> Julien.