I have a strange problem with MinGw installation (on Win 8 PC). The compiler works for both fortran:
gfortran hw.f -o hw.exe
and for C++:
g++ hwc.cpp -o hwc.exe
However, no exe files are created. The compiler exits without option but there is just no EXE !?
When I make (intentionally) an error in the source, I have proper error message, so compiler
undoubtedly work. I tried using -v switch to see the flow and I see no suspicious messages as well.
So - what's the heck? :-)
Check "quarantined items" in your anti-virus software. I used to have similar problem with MinGW on XP+avast when I tried to build wxWidgets (2.8.x I think) - during the "configure" stage avast moved some (but not all) executables produced by configure script into "quarantined items folder".
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I downloaded Codeblocks bundled with GCC from here
The C part is running fine
I read this wiki tutorial which says having GCC will allow me to compile objective C by just adding -lobjc to the compiler options
However, I have followed the steps mentioned in this tutorial and added the -lobjc option, but it doesn't compile
This is the build error message I get in codeblocks:
-------------- Build: Debug in test_prog_proj (compiler: GNU GCC Obj-C Compiler)---------------
mingw32-gcc.exe -Wall -g -c D:\backup\cb_files\objc_files\test_prog_proj\test_prog.m -o obj\Debug\test_prog.o
mingw32-gcc.exe: error: CreateProcess: No such file or directory
Process terminated with status 1 (0 minute(s), 2 second(s))
1 error(s), 0 warning(s) (0 minute(s), 2 second(s))
As shown above, it does not show the -lobjc option
I have also tried manually compiling the above program in Windows cmd by going into the folder containing the .m file. I gave the following command:
mingw32-gcc.exe -Wall -g -c D:\backup\cb_files\objc_files\test_prog_proj\test_prog.m -o obj\Debug\test_prog.o -lobjc
But I get the same error in cmd
mingw32-gcc.exe: error: CreateProcess: No such file or directory
I also tried
gcc -g -fgnu-runtime -O -c some_class.m
that I got from here, but it gives me the same CreateProcess error. How do I start compiling Objective C code in Windows (preferably using GCC and Codeblocks) ?
--- EDIT 1 ---
I did as suggested in Mike Kinghan's answer below, and uninstalled my older Codeblocks instgallation, then reinstalled MinGW and codeblocks separately. The Codeblocks uninstall removed the Codeblocks folder in Program Files, but when I reinstalled Codeblocks again (version without MinGW bundled together), the "GNU GCC Obj-C" settings I made with the previous installation was still there, along with the -lobjc flag in the "linker settings" tab.
However, the problem is that it's still not working. I get the following error if I try to build from Codeblocks
Goto "Settings->Compiler...->Global compiler settings->GNU GCC Obj-C Compiler->Toolchain executables" and fix the compiler's setup.
Tried to run compiler executable 'C:\Program Files\CodeBlocks\MinGW/bin/mingw32-gcc.exe', but failed!
Skipping... Nothing to be done (all items are up-to-date).
This is what Toolchains executable looks like:
If I try to compile it from cmd by going in to the folder with the .m file and issuing the command
mingw32-gcc.exe -Wall -g -c D:\backup\cb_files\objc_files\test_prog_proj\test_prog.m -o obj\Debug\test_prog.o -lobjc
it gives the error
mingw32-gcc.exe: error: CreateProcess: No such file or directory
What is the problem here?
--- EDIT 2 ---
Following the suggestion in Mike Kinghan's answer I deleted the old instance of "GNU GCC Obj-C Compiler" in the list of compiliers, and recreated with the current version of "GNU GCC Compiler"
However, the program still does not work. This is the message I get in the build log:
-------------- Build: Debug in test_prog_proj (compiler: GNU GCC Obj-C Compiler)---------------
Linking stage skipped (build target has no object files to link)
Nothing to be done (all items are up-to-date).
Cleaning the project and then building it again gives the same message. Trying to run the project anyway gives me a dialog box saying the project is not built, and clicking on Yes to build the project just pops the same "project not built yet" dialog box up again. The file icons in the Workspace tree of the Projects tab also seem to be grayed out:
This is what Toolchain Executable looks like:
I have added -lobjc in Linker Settings as mentioned here as well.
I right clicked the project icon in the Project tree, went to Build Options and added -lobjc in the Linker Settings as well:
What is the problem with this project at the moment?
--- EDIT 3 ---
I ended up completely uninstalling Codeblocks (uninstall from windows start menu, delete codeblocks folder in %APPDATA%), uninstalling MinGW (deleting the c:\MinGW folder) and reinstalling everything from scratch. I followed all the instructions in the Wiki (except the Troubleshooting section, but I think that part is irrelevant) and it still doesn't work (same problem as described in Edit 2 in this post).
How do I get Codeblocks to detect and compile obj-C code? Also, it is not showing me the compiler command line arguments when I try to build it from the Codeblocks interface. Why is this and how can I get it to show me whatever the full command line it is using?
The GCC program we loosely call the "the compiler" - [mingw32-](gcc|g++) -
is actually a compiler/linker frontend that invokes a real language
compiler and/or linker depending on what the input files and commandline options
indicate you want it to do.
Input files with an .m extension indicate they are Objective C source files
that are to be compiled with the GNU Objective C compiler, cc1obj. But you
haven't got it. Hence the failure you see.
A GCC installation will include the C compiler cc1 and, optionally, compilers
for other languages - C++, Fortran, Objective (C|C++), Go ... You say you got your MinGW GCC installation as
bundled with Code::Blocks. That bundled MinGW omits the Objective C compiler, cc1obj , because the maintainers
reckon it a niche language.
Best remove your CB installation and bundled MinGW and then install MinGW GCC independently from
one of the rival projects:-
https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/
Run the installer and ensure that you get Objective C as well as any other compilers you
want.
After that, replace your CB installation it with the codeblocks-17.12-setup.exe installer (not codeblocks-17.12mingw-setup.exe),
from https://sourceforge.net/projects/codeblocks/files/Binaries/17.12/Windows/. This installer includes no compilers and
will auto-detect your MinGW installation.
Then proceed as you already did to create a GNU GCC Obj-C compiler setup in the CB IDE.
Later ... still not working
Your GNU GCC Obj-C compiler-setup has persisted from your previous
CB install and has been rendered out-of-date by the fact that your
new MinGW installation is no longer part of Code::Blocks. As you see,
it still looks for the toolchain executables in C:\Program Files\Codeblocks\MinGW,
whereas your new MinGW is somewhere else.
When you reinstalled Code::Blocks you should have seen its attempt to auto-detect compilers,
and that it detected your MinGW toolchain in (say) C:\MinGW. It will have configured
a compiler setup for GNU GCC Compiler on that basis, with the correct path to
the toolchain executables. But it will not have modified any persisting compiler setups that
you created yourself, such as GNU GCC Obj-C.
First check that the auto-detected setup GNU GCC Compiler is good just
by creating a "Hello world" C console project and seeing that you can build it.
I assume you'll be able to, but if not, then go into the GNU GCC Compiler setup
yourself and manually set the Compiler's installation directory correctly.
Then, set the same Compiler's installation directory for your GNU GCC Obj-C
compiler setup.
I feel completely lost trying to get CMake to work on Windows. I have a project (ECCODES) that has Fortran and C files. I can compile Fortran files if I don't use CMake. But this project came with a ton of CMake files. I look at the error below and it says to me, "I (CMake) cannot compile a simple Fortran program even though you can compile Fortran files when you aren't using CMake." Can anyone make sense of this? I'm trying to use mingw64 since I can't use cygwin on this project for the Windows build. On Mac OS X and GNU/Linux everything builds fine, but I have to run this project on Windows...
Error:The Fortran compiler "c:/gcc-5.1.0-tdm64-1-fortran/bin/gfortran.exe" is not able to compile a simple test program.
It fails with the following output:
Change Dir: C:/Users/knauthg/.CLion2016.1/system/cmake/generated/ECCodes-45f4e5f3/45f4e5f3/__default__/CMakeFiles/CMakeTmp
Run Build Command:"C:/mingw64/bin/mingw32-make.exe" "cmTC_93cb8/fast"
C:/mingw64/bin/mingw32-make.exe -f CMakeFiles\cmTC_93cb8.dir\build.make CMakeFiles/cmTC_93cb8.dir/build
mingw32-make.exe[1]: Entering directory 'C:/Users/knauthg/.CLion2016.1/system/cmake/generated/ECCodes-45f4e5f3/45f4e5f3/__default__/CMakeFiles/CMakeTmp'
Building Fortran object CMakeFiles/cmTC_93cb8.dir/testFortranCompiler.f.obj
c:\gcc-5.1.0-tdm64-1-fortran\bin\gfortran.exe -c C:\Users\knauthg\.CLion2016.1\system\cmake\generated\ECCodes-45f4e5f3\45f4e5f3\__default__\CMakeFiles\CMakeTmp\testFortranCompiler.f -o CMakeFiles\cmTC_93cb8.dir\testFortranCompiler.f.obj
CMakeFiles\cmTC_93cb8.dir\build.make:64: recipe for target 'CMakeFiles/cmTC_93cb8.dir/testFortranCompiler.f.obj' failed
mingw32-make.exe[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/cmTC_93cb8.dir/testFortranCompiler.f.obj] Error 1
mingw32-make.exe[1]: Leaving directory 'C:/Users/knauthg/.CLion2016.1/system/cmake/generated/ECCodes-45f4e5f3/45f4e5f3/__default__/CMakeFiles/CMakeTmp'
Makefile:125: recipe for target 'cmTC_93cb8/fast' failed
mingw32-make.exe: *** [cmTC_93cb8/fast] Error 2
CMake will not be able to correctly generate this project.
Before, I was using the tdm-gcc Windows 64-bit build of gfortran. I switched to the 64-bit build of gfortran by Simply Fortran, and now the entire ECCODES project builds to completion using CMake. I'm still using MingW64 gcc to compile the C files.
Hat tip to John Wasilewski on a thread of Physics Forums who gave the tip about Simply Fortran.
I'm trying to use CppUTest in Windows, first step is to get it to work and I already have problems. These are the things I've tried:
First Approach
With CMake, using the cmake GUI I can do the configure and generate command and I get something in the output directory, but no binaries and no libraries, just a bunch of cmakefiles. The CMake GUI says everything went OK during the configuration and generation steps, however the libraries (.lib files) are not generated in the output directory... is there something I am missing? I've never used CMake before.
Second approach
With MinGW and msys alone, running cmd in Windows and executing a MinGW shell by typing sh in the Windows terminal, afterwards I execute the following commands:
cd <CppUTest folder>
mount c:\mingw /mingw
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
The build process starts but it fails with a message indicating that pthread.h was not found in MinGW directory. If I install the pthread-win32 package with the MinGW package manager and repeat the same steps as above the build process starts but fails with a message indicating that the structure timespec is defined in time.h and pthread.h.
I've tried to follow this same procedure with CppUTest 3.6 and it works perfectly fine, I get the .lib files, so I guess I will have to continue with this for now.
Does anyone know how to build CppUTest 3.7 (latest release) with MinGW or CMake?
In the end I used Cygwin to compile it, I couldn't find a way to compile it with MinGW properly, I added a dirty trick to make it compile under MinGW (handled the timespec redifinition) but chances are that is going to cause issues.
Just make sure that you use Cygwin aswell to compile your tests, something that I found out after making this question (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVmd0P85D8o).
I've tried official howto but failed. I got error:
"The procedure entry point InterlockedCompareExchange#12 could not be located in the dynamic link library libstdc++-6.dll"
The problem was due the old gcc compiler, bundled with DevKit from rubyinstaller.org (4.5 vs 4.8 on my PC). Use MSYS instead. Assume we have zeromq source inside D:\libs\zeromq, then the procedure is:
Download GUI MinGW installer.
Install base and MSYS (if you already have working gcc compiler you probably only need MSYS).
Launch MSYS environment by executing C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\msys.bat.
Follow Using MSYS with MinGW section:
mount c:/mingw /mingw
cd /d/libs/zeromq
./configure --prefix=/mingw
make
Copy /d/libs/zeromq/src/.libs/libzmq.dll to your desired place.
In fact I needed to use ZeroMQ with C++, so I downloaded zmq.hpp, moved it to include directory, and compiled hwserver.cpp to test it:
C:\MinGW\bin\g++.exe -o hwserver hwserver.cpp -L. -lzmq -ID:\libs\zeromq\include
It worked, but when I launch it I got:
Assertion failed!
Program: D:\tmp\zmq\hwserver.exe
File: D:\libs\zeromq\include/zmq.hpp, Line 280
Expression: rc == 0
This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way.
Please contact the application's support team for more information.
I've managed to get rid of this failure by commenting lines 279, 280. Similar issue
Windows VC++ 2008
linux gcc 4.4.3
I have the following problem. When I compile on windows I need the ws2_32 library. However, when I compile on linux, I don't need to link this.
My CMakeLists.txt
INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES($CLIENT_SERVER_SOURCE_DIR/client)
INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES($CLIENT_SERVER_SOURCE_DIR/cltsvr_ults)
# Link the library
LINK_DIRECTORIES($CLIENT_SERVER_DIR/client)
# Add the executable
ADD_EXECUTABLE(clt test_clt)
# Link the executable to the client library
IF(WIN32)
TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(clt client ws2_32)
ENDIF(WIN32)
IF(CMAKE_COMPILER_IS_GNUCXXX)
TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(clt client)
ENDIF(CMAKE_COMPILER_IS_GNUCXXX)
I have tried unsuccessfully to compile under linux. Using the above conditions. However, It always tries to link the ws2_32 and I get a compile error. I think that the conditions aren't working, as it always falls through the WIN32 condition.
many thanks for any suggestions,
Since the WIN32 thing is such a fundamental part of CMake, I'd guess that there is more to this than what you mention.
Are you doing a clean check out of your code, or just copying up a whole directory on Linux? If you have all your CMake build files cached from the Windows build, maybe (just maybe!) something has snuck in there and "detects" itself as WIN32 on Linux?
Are you sure it is that line and not something else that causes the link to the stray Win-library? Maybe try a MESSAGE(STATUS "I am here")line within the IF(WIN32) just to make sure.
Are you sure the error is caused by linking that library? I can see a typo in your script, it should be IF(CMAKE_COMPILER_IS_GNUCXX) - you have an extra X on there. Perhaps you are not linking in what you thing you are, and that is why it fails.