Re: Building log4cxx 0.9.7 with MinGW and MSYS (no cygwin)

Jwahar Bammi wrote:
> I cant say that I have compiled for a pure MingW environment, but I would
> pull the Cygnus libpthread for win32, specify that for  thread and it should
> move the build ahead. 

That's the right solution.  libpthread is intended for use with either
Cygwin or Mingw.  See their page and install it.

The log4cxx configure script should be smart enough to detect all the
things he reported though.

--joel sherrill

> Jwahar Bammi
> Memento, Inc.
> bammi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Enno Borgsteede [mailto:ennoborg@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2004 10:20 AM
> To: log4cxx-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Building log4cxx 0.9.7 with MinGW and MSYS (no cygwin)
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to build version 0.9.7 under MinGW on XP Home. I'm running 
> MinGW with MSYS and msysDTK, not CYGWIN. Searching the list archive 
> didn't provide a solution, so here's a summury of what I tried.
>
> 1. I found that configure can't figure out whether threads are 
> available. It stops with an error, but I can avoid that by specifying 
> --with-threads=no on the command line.
> 2. Then compilation stops, because the type int64_t is not recognized. I 
> can cure that too, by defining int64_t as __int64 in config.h.
> 3. I can't easily get past the third hurdle, which is the compiler 
> complaining that the thread() object does not exist. I can't find an 
> easy cure for that, so I'm stuck here.
>
> I can think of several options, but maybe someone else has tried this 
> before, and give me directions:
> 1. Is --with-threads=no the right choice?
> 2. I use the latest versions of MinGW and MSYS. Would it help if I 
> upgrade the compiler?
> I prefer not to upgrade to cygwin, because I like the MinGW philosophy 
> better.
>
> thanks,
>
> Enno


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