<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> One more thing: I've attached the terminal output from the installation, in case it is it's helpful at all. <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2016-08-20 16:01, Noah Scott Goldman wrote: </div> <blockquote cite="mid:d8b8722f-af15-9722-b938-65db013bb6ef@badmousedriver.xyz" type="cite"> <meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> 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? Best wishes, Noah G. <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2016-08-19 16:00, <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:users-request@lists.mercurylang.org">users-request@lists.mercurylang.org</a> wrote: </div> <blockquote cite="mid:mailman.1.1471658401.24213.users@lists.mercurylang.org" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Send users mailing list submissions to <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:users@lists.mercurylang.org">users@lists.mercurylang.org</a> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://lists.mercurylang.org/listinfo/users">https://lists.mercurylang.org/listinfo/users</a> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:users-request@lists.mercurylang.org">users-request@lists.mercurylang.org</a> You can reach the person managing the list at <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:users-owner@lists.mercurylang.org">users-owner@lists.mercurylang.org</a> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of users digest..." 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Re: Building Mercury from source (Julien Fischer) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2016 16:01:24 +1000 (AEST) From: Julien Fischer <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:jfischer@opturion.com"><jfischer@opturion.com></a> To: Noah Scott Goldman <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:noahsg@badmousedriver.xyz"><noahsg@badmousedriver.xyz></a> Cc: <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:users@lists.mercurylang.org">"users@lists.mercurylang.org"</a> <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:users@lists.mercurylang.org"><users@lists.mercurylang.org></a> Subject: Re: [m-users.] Building Mercury from source Message-ID: <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:alpine.OSX.2.20.1608191558030.53077@ah.smart.com.au"><alpine.OSX.2.20.1608191558030.53077@ah.smart.com.au></a> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Hi, On Wed, 17 Aug 2016, Noah Scott Goldman wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Thanks for trying to help me with my compiler trouble. I've decided to try building Mercury from the "release of the day" source on MinGW-w64 via MSYS2. I am using the MinGW-w64 version of GCC. Unfortunately, this approach has problems of its own. When I run $ ./configure --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32 --with-cc=gcc --enable-minimal-install I get a warning: checking return values of system... no configure: WARNING: Unable to interpret return values from system </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">That test is checking for Unix specific behaviour which Windows doesn't implement. (We should probably just shut it up on Windows.) </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">The script does successfully terminate; however, when I run make it usually fails. I have included the output of ./configure in a text file. From what I can gather, either I am missing some libraries that allows C to communicate with the terminal, or those commands are not making it to MSYS2. Any suggestions? </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">If you could post how it is failing, we may be able to help. Julien. ------------------------------ Subject: Digest Footer _______________________________________________ users mailing list <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:users@lists.mercurylang.org">users@lists.mercurylang.org</a> <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://lists.mercurylang.org/listinfo/users">https://lists.mercurylang.org/listinfo/users</a> ------------------------------ End of users Digest, Vol 37, Issue 9 ************************************ </pre> </blockquote> </blockquote> </body> </html>