Need help building gnu gettext 0.19.8.1 under cygwin

[Marco Atzeri]

On 11.08.2020 10:13, Selim Kırpıcı via Cygwin wrote:
> Hello friends,
> 
> I am running into some linker problems while trying to build gettext.
> After configuring with no arguments and running make, after quite some
> time, I get this error:
> 
> libtool: link: g++ -shared -nostdlib
> /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-cygwin/9.3.0/crtbeginS.o
>   .libs/libgettextsrc_la-message.o .libs/libgettextsrc_la-po-error.o
> .libs/libgettextsrc_la-po-xerror.o
> .libs/libgettextsrc_la-read-catalog-abstract.o
> .libs/libgettextsrc_la-po-lex.o .libs/libgettextsrc_la-po-gram-gen.o
> .libs/libgettextsrc_la-po-charset.o .libs/libgettextsrc_la-read-po.o
> .libs/libgettextsrc_la-read-properties.o
> .libs/libgettextsrc_la-read-stringtable.o
> .libs/libgettextsrc_la-open-catalog.o .libs/libgettextsrc_la-dir-list.o
> .libs/libgettextsrc_la-str-list.o .libs/libgettextsrc_la-read-catalog.o
> .libs/libgettextsrc_la-color.o .libs/libgettextsrc_la-write-catalog.o
> .libs/libgettextsrc_la-write-properties.o
> .libs/libgettextsrc_la-write-stringtable.o
> .libs/libgettextsrc_la-write-po.o .libs/libgettextsrc_la-msgl-ascii.o
> .libs/libgettextsrc_la-msgl-iconv.o .libs/libgettextsrc_la-msgl-equal.o
> .libs/libgettextsrc_la-msgl-cat.o .libs/libgettextsrc_la-msgl-header.o
> .libs/libgettextsrc_la-msgl-english.o .libs/libgettextsrc_la-msgl-check.o
> .libs/libgettextsrc_la-file-list.o .libs/libgettextsrc_la-msgl-charset.o
> .libs/libgettextsrc_la-po-time.o .libs/libgettextsrc_la-plural-exp.o
> .libs/libgettextsrc_la-plural-eval.o .libs/libgettextsrc_la-plural-table.o
> .libs/libgettextsrc_la-sentence.o
> ../woe32dll/.libs/libgettextsrc_la-c++format.o
> .libs/libgettextsrc_la-format-c.o .libs/libgettextsrc_la-format-sh.o
> .libs/libgettextsrc_la-format-python.o
> .libs/libgettextsrc_la-format-python-brace.o
> .libs/libgettextsrc_la-format-lisp.o .libs/libgettextsrc_la-format-elisp.o
> .libs/libgettextsrc_la-format-librep.o
> .libs/libgettextsrc_la-format-scheme.o .libs/libgettextsrc_la-format-java.o
> .libs/libgettextsrc_la-format-csharp.o .libs/libgettextsrc_la-format-awk.o
> .libs/libgettextsrc_la-format-pascal.o .libs/libgettextsrc_la-format-ycp.o
> .libs/libgettextsrc_la-format-tcl.o .libs/libgettextsrc_la-format-perl.o
> .libs/libgettextsrc_la-format-perl-brace.o
> .libs/libgettextsrc_la-format-php.o
> .libs/libgettextsrc_la-format-gcc-internal.o
> .libs/libgettextsrc_la-format-gfc-internal.o
> .libs/libgettextsrc_la-format-qt.o
> .libs/libgettextsrc_la-format-qt-plural.o
> .libs/libgettextsrc_la-format-kde.o
> .libs/libgettextsrc_la-format-kde-kuit.o
> .libs/libgettextsrc_la-format-boost.o .libs/libgettextsrc_la-format-lua.o
> .libs/libgettextsrc_la-format-javascript.o
> .libs/libgettextsrc_la-read-desktop.o
> .libs/libgettextsrc_la-locating-rule.o .libs/libgettextsrc_la-its.o
> .libs/libgettextsrc_la-search-path.o
> ../woe32dll/.libs/libgettextsrc_la-gettextsrc-exports.o
> -L/home/miles/build-son/gettext-tools/intl/.libs
> ../gnulib-lib/.libs/libgettextlib.dll.a
> /home/miles/build-son/gettext-tools/intl/.libs/libintl.dll.a
> ../intl/.libs/libintl.dll.a -liconv -L/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-cygwin/9.3.0
> -L/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-cygwin/9.3.0/../../../../x86_64-pc-cygwin/lib/../lib
> -L/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-cygwin/9.3.0/../../../../lib -L/lib/../lib
> -L/usr/lib/../lib
> -L/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-cygwin/9.3.0/../../../../x86_64-pc-cygwin/lib
> -L/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-cygwin/9.3.0/../../.. -lstdc++ -lgcc_s -lgcc
> -lcygwin -ladvapi32 -lshell32 -luser32 -lkernel32 -lgcc_s -lgcc
> /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-cygwin/9.3.0/crtend.o  -g -O2
> -Wl,--export-all-symbols -Wl,--disable-auto-import   -fopenmp -o
> .libs/cyggettextsrc-0-19-8-1.dll -Wl,--enable-auto-image-base -Xlinker
> --out-implib -Xlinker .libs/libgettextsrc.dll.a
> /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-cygwin/9.3.0/../../../../x86_64-pc-cygwin/bin/ld:
> .libs/libgettextsrc_la-locating-rule.o:locating-rule.c:(.rdata$.refptr.xmlFree[.refptr.xmlFree]+0x0):
> undefined reference to `xmlFree'
> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
> 
> I installed libxml2 via cygwin setup and tried to compile a small C program
> that calls xmlFree()
> it compiles and links fine using this:
> $ gcc -I/usr/include/libxml2 test.c -o test -lxml2
> 
> I also tried to configure with:
> $ ./configure LIBS="-lxml2"
> This didnt work as well.
> 
> Any suggestions will be much much appreciated
> --

why you need to build something aleady available ?

$ cygcheck -cd |grep gettext
gettext                                 0.19.8.1-2
gettext-devel                           0.19.8.1-2
libgettextpo0                           0.19.8.1-2

If you are interested you can look at the cygwin source package
to see about patch and compile methodology used