cross compiling apr failure (mingw32)

[Jeff Koftinoff <je...@jdkoftinoff.com>]

It would be really nice if configure worked for cross-compiling for
mingw32 from linux/mac osx.  I have the cross tools installed.

I tried this command line:

../../apr/configure --host=i386-mingw32msvc --prefix=$PWD/usr

and after many successful tests using i386-mingw32msvc-* tools in the
log, I got this:

Checking for Shared Memory Support...
checking for library containing shm_open... no
checking for sys/types.h... (cached) yes
checking sys/mman.h usability... no
checking sys/mman.h presence... no
checking for sys/mman.h... no
checking sys/ipc.h usability... no
checking sys/ipc.h presence... no
checking for sys/ipc.h... no
checking sys/mutex.h usability... no
checking sys/mutex.h presence... no
checking for sys/mutex.h... no
checking sys/shm.h usability... no
checking sys/shm.h presence... no
checking for sys/shm.h... no
checking sys/file.h usability... yes
checking sys/file.h presence... yes
checking for sys/file.h... yes
checking kernel/OS.h usability... no
checking kernel/OS.h presence... no
checking for kernel/OS.h... no
checking os2.h usability... no
checking os2.h presence... no
checking for os2.h... no
checking for mmap... no
checking for munmap... no
checking for shm_open... no
checking for shm_unlink... no
checking for shmget... no
checking for shmat... no
checking for shmdt... no
checking for shmctl... no
checking for create_area... no
checking for MAP_ANON in sys/mman.h... no
checking for /dev/zero... yes
../../apr/configure:Error: decision on anonymous shared memory
allocation method failed



Jeff Koftinoff

Re: cross compiling apr failure (mingw32)

["William A. Rowe, Jr." <wr...@rowe-clan.net>]

Jeff,

even if cross-compilation succeeded, our platform tests would not.  Fortunately,
they aren't actually needed since we have fixed values for what is and is not
supported on w32.  But this does involve some glue that isn't present at the
moment to move apr.hw -> apr.h etc.  Unfortunately some of our tests are
build-time detection, some of our tests are run-time detection, and we've done
a poor job of deliniating them or supporting cross compilation :(

Help is always appreciated.

Bill



Jeff Koftinoff wrote:
> It would be really nice if configure worked for cross-compiling for
> mingw32 from linux/mac osx.  I have the cross tools installed.
> 
> I tried this command line:
> 
> ../../apr/configure --host=i386-mingw32msvc --prefix=$PWD/usr
> 
> and after many successful tests using i386-mingw32msvc-* tools in the
> log, I got this:
> 
> Checking for Shared Memory Support...
> checking for library containing shm_open... no
> checking for sys/types.h... (cached) yes
> checking sys/mman.h usability... no
> checking sys/mman.h presence... no
> checking for sys/mman.h... no
> checking sys/ipc.h usability... no
> checking sys/ipc.h presence... no
> checking for sys/ipc.h... no
> checking sys/mutex.h usability... no
> checking sys/mutex.h presence... no
> checking for sys/mutex.h... no
> checking sys/shm.h usability... no
> checking sys/shm.h presence... no
> checking for sys/shm.h... no
> checking sys/file.h usability... yes
> checking sys/file.h presence... yes
> checking for sys/file.h... yes
> checking kernel/OS.h usability... no
> checking kernel/OS.h presence... no
> checking for kernel/OS.h... no
> checking os2.h usability... no
> checking os2.h presence... no
> checking for os2.h... no
> checking for mmap... no
> checking for munmap... no
> checking for shm_open... no
> checking for shm_unlink... no
> checking for shmget... no
> checking for shmat... no
> checking for shmdt... no
> checking for shmctl... no
> checking for create_area... no
> checking for MAP_ANON in sys/mman.h... no
> checking for /dev/zero... yes
> ../../apr/configure:Error: decision on anonymous shared memory
> allocation method failed
> 
> 
> 
> Jeff Koftinoff
> 
> 
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