Trying to build on windows with mingw64

[dsacks]

I'm on windows 10 trying to build with msys/mingw64 tools.

doing make in ccl/lisp-kernel/win64, I'm getting a bunch of errors including:
thread_manager.c:242: undefined reference to atomic_swap' thread_manager.c:602: undefined reference to atomic_ior'

etc. I assume I'm missing something, but I don't know what.

[dsacks]

Actually, I'm missing the right way to build CCL. I looked at the build instructions and am on the right track now. I tried building the latest from git with my working CCL build, but am getting an error indicating I'm missing things from my mingwin installation;

I don't know why, but I have ld, but not x86_64-w64-mingw32-ld and it looks like I don't have m4, but that is probably a pacman command away. I've yet to figure out what is up with x86_64-w64-mingw32-ld, but in any case those are not CCL issues.

[dsacks]

Okay, silly question, but I think I succeeded in building the latest CCL. However, how do I execute it? These are the last few lines of the output from (rebuild-ccl :clean t)
;Loading #P"C:/Users/dennis/scoop/apps/ccl/current/level-0/nfasload.wx64fsl"...
;Wrote bootstrapping image: #P"C:/Users/dennis/scoop/apps/ccl/current/wx86-boot64.image"
;Wrote heap image: #P"C:/Users/dennis/scoop/apps/ccl/current/wx86cl64.image"
NIL

[xrme]

There are two steps.

One is to build the lisp kernel. On Windows, you'd go into lisp-kernel/win64 and then run make. This will create an executable named wx86cl64.exe.

The next step is to rebuild the heap image file. From the top of the ccl directory, start your ccl with ./wx86cl64 and then evaluate (rebuild-ccl :clean t). It looks that that's what you just did.

When you've performed those two steps, you're done.

[dsacks]

Do you compile using msys? I tried doing a make clean and make under lisp-kernel/win64 and when I try to execute the resulting binary it gives me this error:

bash: ./wx86cl64.exe: cannot execute binary file: Exec format error

$ file ../../wx86cl64.exe
../../wx86cl64.exe: PE32+ executable (console) x86-64, for MS Windows, 23 sections

the last part of the make output is weird to me:
/mingw64/bin/x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc -Wl,--image-base=0x10000 -Wl,-script=pei-x86-64.x -m64 -g -o
../../wx86cl64.exe pad.o x86-spjump64.o x86-spentry64.o x86-subprims64.o pmcl-kernel.o gc-common.o
x86-gc.o bits.o x86-exceptions.o x86-utils.o image.o thread_manager.o lisp-debug.o memory.o windows
-calls.o x86-asmutils64.o imports.o lispdcmd.o plprint.o plsym.o xlbt.o x86_print.o -lpsapi -lws2_3
2 -static -lpthread
C:/msys64/mingw64/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/13.1.0/../../../../x86_64-w64-mingw32/bin/ld.exe
: ../../wx86cl64.exe:/4: section below image base
C:/msys64/mingw64/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/13.1.0/../../../../x86_64-w64-mingw32/bin/ld.exe
: ../../wx86cl64.exe:/20: section below image base
C:/msys64/mingw64/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/13.1.0/../../../../x86_64-w64-mingw32/bin/ld.exe
: ../../wx86cl64.exe:/36: section below image base

[xrme]

I just checked in changes so that the Windows lisp kernels can be built with an up-to-date MSYS2 installation. See #425, and the comments in win64/Makefile.

If you'll pull and try again (use the MINGW64 environment), you should be able to build a working wx86cl64.exe.