Build Parrot with MinGW, MSYS and MSYS-DTK

Start with Build Parrot with MinGW.

• Last verified: 5.4.2005
• Too buggy now.

Prepare MSYS/MinGW environment

• install MinGW (MinGW-3.1.0-1, download page, 15MB) (gcc,...)
• install MSYS (MSYS-1.0.10.exe, same download page, 2.5MB) (console, ...)
• install MSYS-DTK (msysDTK-1.0.0.exe, same download page, 9MB) (perl-5.6.1,cvs, ...)
• create file "'C:\msys\etc\fstab'" with line "C:/MinGW /mingw"

#Win32_Path		Mount_Point
C:/MinGW 		/mingw

Configure, Build, Test and Install

export PATH=$PATH:/c/usr/lib/icu/bin:/c/usr/lib/icu/lib:/mingw/lib
cd /c/usr/parrot
perl Configure.pl --nomanicheck --cc=gcc --icushared="/c/usr/lib/icu/lib/icudt.lib /c/usr/lib/icu/lib/icuuc.lib" --icuheaders="/c/usr/lib/icu/include" --icudatadir="/c/usr/lib/icu/data" $@
make

error - error:imcc:No such file or directory

• solution: ?
• experimental solution:

cp runtime/parrot/include/interpinfo.pasm ./

• ./parrot.exe -o runtime/parrot/include/parrotlib.pbc runtime/parrot/library/parrotlib.imc

error:imcc:No such file or directory
in file 'runtime/parrot/library/parrotlib.imc' line 187

error - partial link tcl_group.dll failed (256)

• solution: ?
• debugging: see '"/msys/bin/perlld"' line 22 and 23 ('#my $DEBUG ="./perlld.out";', ...)
• experimental solution: edit "'dynclasses\build.pl'"

our $LIBPARROT = qq[../src/pmc.o ../src/extend.o ../src/string.o ../src/inter_run.o ../src/string_primitives.o  /c/usr/lib/icu/lib/icudata.lib /c/usr/lib/icu/lib/icuuc.lib ../blib/lib/libparrot.a /mingw/lib/libwsock32.a];

• make

Test

make test 2>&1 | tee _test_output.txt

Install

make install
which parrot
cd /usr/local/parrot-0.2.0-devel
parrot ./example/...

• see "C:\msys\local\parrot-0.2.0-devel"

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• run Configure.pl with parameter --libs="/mingw/lib/libwsock32.a"
  • In function `PIO_sockaddr_in':
  • undefined reference to `inet_addr@4'
  • undefined reference to `gethostbyname@4'
  • undefined reference to `htons@4'
• save ld2 to "'c:\msys\bin'"
  • make: ld2: Command not found
  • partial link tcl_group.dll failed (-1)
  • partial link tcl_group.dll failed (256)
• edit /dynclasses/build.pl, see above
  • In function `Parrot_PMC_get_cstring_intkey':
  • undefined reference to `string_to_cstring'
  • undefined reference to `pmc_register'
•  ???
  • dllwrap.exe: no export definition file provided