学习如何在 MinGW 中使用 Configure && Make

Question

I use Rufus at work quire regularly, and I would like to commit code to the project in appreciation. The problem is that this is the first open-source C++ project that I have worked on. In the Compile section in README.md pbatard mentions that "Configure && Make" can be used. I found out that I can use msys.bat in C:\\MinGW\\msys\\1.0 to run those commands (in windows). Though I am getting the following errors:

checking for a BSD-compatible install... /bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether make supports nested variables... yes
checking whether make supports nested variables... (cached) yes
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.exe
checking for suffix of executables... .exe
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking whether gcc understands -c and -o together... yes
checking for ar... ar
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed
checking for rm... /bin/rm
checking for strip... strip
checking for windres... windres
checking for inline... inline
enabling Large File Support (ISO support)
checking that generated files are newer than configure... done
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating src/Makefile
config.status: creating src/bled/Makefile
config.status: creating src/ext2fs/Makefile
config.status: creating src/libcdio/iso9660/Makefile
config.status: creating src/libcdio/udf/Makefile
config.status: creating src/libcdio/driver/Makefile
config.status: creating res/loc/Makefile
config.status: creating src/ms-sys/Makefile
config.status: creating src/syslinux/libfat/Makefile
config.status: creating src/syslinux/libinstaller/Makefile
config.status: creating src/syslinux/win/Makefile
Making all in src
make[1]: Entering directory `/c/Users/<username>/Documents/C++/rufus/src'
Making all in bled
make[2]: Entering directory `/c/Users/<username>/Documents/C++/rufus/src/bled'
  CC       libbled_a-bled.o
In file included from c:\mingw\include\stdio.h:95,
                 from ../msapi_utf8.h:23,
                 from libbb.h:24,
                 from bled.c:14:
c:\mingw\include\sys/types.h:98:22: error: conflicting types for 'off64_t'
   typedef __off64_t  off64_t;
                      ^~~~~~~
<command-line>: note: previous declaration of 'off64_t' was here
<command-line>: error: conflicting types for 'off64_t'
In file included from c:\mingw\include\stdio.h:95,
                 from ../msapi_utf8.h:23,
                 from libbb.h:24,
                 from bled.c:14:
c:\mingw\include\sys/types.h:98:22: note: previous declaration of 'off64_t' was here
   typedef __off64_t  off64_t;
                      ^~~~~~~
In file included from c:\mingw\include\io.h:56,
                 from c:\mingw\include\dos.h:64,
                 from c:\mingw\include\direct.h:53,
                 from ../msapi_utf8.h:30,
                 from libbb.h:24,
                 from bled.c:14:
c:\mingw\include\sys\types.h:98:22: error: conflicting types for 'off64_t'
   typedef __off64_t  off64_t;
                      ^~~~~~~
<command-line>: note: previous declaration of 'off64_t' was here
In file included from libbb.h:24,
                 from bled.c:14:
../msapi_utf8.h: In function 'fopenU':
../msapi_utf8.h:1005:2: error: implicit declaration of function '_wfopen_s'; did you mean '_wfopen'? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
  _wfopen_s(&ret, wfilename, wmode);
  ^~~~~~~~~
  _wfopen
../msapi_utf8.h: In function '_openU':
../msapi_utf8.h:1021:2: error: implicit declaration of function '_wsopen_s'; did you mean '_wsopen'? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
  _wsopen_s(&ret, wfilename, oflag, shflag, pmode);
  ^~~~~~~~~
  _wsopen
In file included from bled.c:14:
libbb.h: In function 'localtime_r':
libbb.h:198:6: error: implicit declaration of function 'localtime_s'; did you mean 'localtime_r'? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
  if (localtime_s(result, timep) != 0)
      ^~~~~~~~~~~
      localtime_r
cc1.exe: some warnings being treated as errors
make[2]: *** [libbled_a-bled.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/c/Users/amnet_admin/Documents/C++/rufus/src/bled'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/c/Users/amnet_admin/Documents/C++/rufus/src'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

Am I doing something wrong with MinGW, or is there something wrong with the code? I would have thought this would have worked, as I haved got cloned Release 3.8

Thank you very much!

Answer 1

I also tried to compile Rufus with msys1 and ended up with the exact same problem.

After changing to MSYS2 it all worked. Here are the steps I took:

1. Install MSYS2 according to the official page:

    https://www.msys2.org/

2. Copy/Move the project to your MSYS2 home directory:

    C:\\msys64\\home\\<USER>

3. In MSYS2 shell, install the compiler tools:

    $ pacman -S --needed base-devel mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain

4. In MINGW64 shell, run configure and make :

    $ autoreconf -f -i $ configure $ make

In my case I was getting compilation errors related to the function popcnt8() being static and having more than one definition. One way to fix it is to just comment out the static definition in the file rufus.h .