MinGW: error: unrecognized command line option '-V'

Question

I'm trying to compile modsecurity using minGW. It may be this is in fact not possible, since it appears the directions specify to use MSVC. However, I was hoping someone could either tell me how to do it, or explain why it won't work.

My full config.log can be found at http://pastebin.com/WsprFZqK , but for the sake of posterity I've attempted to trim it to something that would fit here.

        This file contains any messages produced by compilers while
running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.

It was created by modsecurity configure 2.7, which was
generated by GNU Autoconf 2.68.  Invocation command line was

  $ ./configure --enable-standalone-module --enable-java-module

## --------- ##
## Platform. ##
## --------- ##

hostname = Phoenix
uname -m = i686
uname -r = 1.0.18(0.48/3/2)
uname -s = MINGW32_NT-6.2
uname -v = 2012-11-21 22:34

/usr/bin/uname -p = unknown
/bin/uname -X     = unknown

/bin/arch              = unknown
/usr/bin/arch -k       = unknown
/usr/convex/getsysinfo = unknown
/usr/bin/hostinfo      = unknown
/bin/machine           = unknown
/usr/bin/oslevel       = unknown
/bin/universe          = unknown

PATH: .
PATH: /usr/local/bin
PATH: /mingw/bin
PATH: /bin
PATH: /c/WINDOWS/system32
PATH: /c/WINDOWS
PATH: /c/WINDOWS/System32/Wbem
PATH: /c/WINDOWS/System32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0/
PATH: /c/Program Files/Calibre2/
PATH: /c/Program Files/android-sdk/sdk/platform-tools
PATH: /c/Program Files/android-sdk/sdk/tools
PATH: /c/Program Files/android-sdk/dex2jar-0.0.9.13
PATH: /c/Program Files/coreutils-5.3.0/bin
PATH: /c/Program Files/Microsoft SQL Server/110/Tools/Binn/
PATH: /c/Program Files/Microsoft/Web Platform Installer/
PATH: /c/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft ASP.NET/ASP.NET Web Pages/v1.0/
PATH: /c/Program Files (x86)/Windows Live/Shared
PATH: /c/Program Files (x86)/Common Files/Adobe/AGL
PATH: /c/Program Files (x86)/Intel/OpenCL SDK/2.0/bin/x86
PATH: /c/Program Files (x86)/Intel/OpenCL SDK/2.0/bin/x64
PATH: /c/Program Files (x86)/QuickTime/QTSystem/
PATH: /c/Program Files (x86)/SysInternals
PATH: /c/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft SQL Server/110/Tools/Binn/
PATH: /c/Program Files/Microsoft SQL Server/110/DTS/Binn/
PATH: /c/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft SQL Server/110/Tools/Binn/ManagementStudio/
PATH: /c/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft SQL Server/110/DTS/Binn/
PATH: /c/Program Files (x86)/GNU/GnuPG/pub
PATH: /c/Program Files/nodejs/
PATH: /c/Program Files (x86)/Windows Kits/8.1/Windows Performance Toolkit/
PATH: /c/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft SDKs/TypeScript/1.0/
PATH: /c/Program Files (x86)/Git/cmd
PATH: /c/Program Files (x86)/Git/bin
PATH: /c/Program Files/OpenVPN/bin
PATH: /c/Users/dlogan/AppData/Roaming/npm
PATH: /c/Program Files/android-sdk/sdk/platform-tools
PATH: /c/Program Files/android-sdk/sdk/tools
PATH: /c/Program Files/NetBeans 7.4/extide/ant/bin
PATH: /c/Program Files (x86)/Nmap


## ----------- ##
## Core tests. ##
## ----------- ##

configure:2650: checking for a BSD-compatible install
configure:2718: result: /bin/install -c
configure:2729: checking whether build environment is sane
configure:2779: result: yes
configure:2920: checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p
configure:2959: result: /bin/mkdir -p
configure:2972: checking for gawk
configure:2988: found /bin/gawk
configure:2999: result: gawk
configure:3010: checking whether make sets $(MAKE)
configure:3032: result: yes
configure:3145: checking build system type
configure:3159: result: i686-pc-mingw32
configure:3179: checking host system type
configure:3192: result: i686-pc-mingw32
configure:3233: checking how to print strings
configure:3260: result: printf
configure:3293: checking for style of include used by make
configure:3321: result: GNU
configure:3391: checking for gcc
configure:3407: found /mingw/bin/gcc
configure:3418: result: gcc
configure:3647: checking for C compiler version
configure:3656: gcc --version >&5
gcc.exe (GCC) 4.8.1
Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

configure:3667: $? = 0
configure:3656: gcc -v >&5
Using built-in specs.
COLLECT_GCC=c:\mingw\bin\gcc.exe
COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=c:/mingw/bin/../libexec/gcc/mingw32/4.8.1/lto-wrapper.exe
Target: mingw32
Configured with: ../gcc-4.8.1/configure --prefix=/mingw --host=mingw32 --build=mingw32 --without-pic --enable-shared --enable-static --with-gnu-ld --enable-lto --enable-libssp --disable-multilib --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c++,ada --disable-sjlj-exceptions --with-dwarf2 --disable-win32-registry --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-version-specific-runtime-libs --with-gmp=/usr/src/pkg/gmp-5.1.2-1-mingw32-src/bld --with-mpc=/usr/src/pkg/mpc-1.0.1-1-mingw32-src/bld --with-mpfr= --with-system-zlib --with-gnu-as --enable-decimal-float=yes --enable-libgomp --enable-threads --with-libiconv-prefix=/mingw32 --with-libintl-prefix=/mingw --disable-bootstrap LDFLAGS=-s CFLAGS=-D_USE_32BIT_TIME_T
Thread model: win32
gcc version 4.8.1 (GCC) 
configure:3667: $? = 0
configure:3656: gcc -V >&5
gcc.exe: error: unrecognized command line option '-V'
gcc.exe: fatal error: no input files
compilation terminated.
configure:3667: $? = 1
configure:3656: gcc -qversion >&5
gcc.exe: error: unrecognized command line option '-qversion'
gcc.exe: fatal error: no input files
compilation terminated.
configure:3667: $? = 1
configure:3687: checking whether the C compiler works
configure:3709: gcc    conftest.c  >&5
configure:3713: $? = 0
configure:3761: result: yes
configure:3764: checking for C compiler default output file name
configure:3766: result: a.exe
configure:3772: checking for suffix of executables
configure:3779: gcc -o conftest.exe    conftest.c  >&5
configure:3783: $? = 0
configure:3805: result: .exe
configure:3827: checking whether we are cross compiling
configure:3835: gcc -o conftest.exe    conftest.c  >&5
configure:3839: $? = 0
configure:3846: ./conftest.exe
configure:3850: $? = 0
configure:3865: result: no
configure:3870: checking for suffix of object files
configure:3892: gcc -c   conftest.c >&5
configure:3896: $? = 0
configure:3917: result: o
configure:3921: checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler
configure:3940: gcc -c   conftest.c >&5
configure:3940: $? = 0
configure:3949: result: yes
configure:3958: checking whether gcc accepts -g
configure:3978: gcc -c -g  conftest.c >&5
configure:3978: $? = 0
configure:4019: result: yes
configure:4036: checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89
configure:4100: gcc  -c -g -O2  conftest.c >&5
configure:4100: $? = 0
configure:4113: result: none needed
configure:4135: checking dependency style of gcc
configure:4245: result: gcc3
configure:4260: checking for a sed that does not truncate output
configure:4324: result: /bin/sed
configure:4342: checking for grep that handles long lines and -e
configure:4400: result: /bin/grep
configure:4405: checking for egrep
configure:4467: result: /bin/grep -E
configure:4472: checking for fgrep
configure:4534: result: /bin/grep -F
configure:4569: checking for ld used by gcc
configure:4636: result: c:/mingw/mingw32/bin/ld.exe
configure:4643: checking if the linker (c:/mingw/mingw32/bin/ld.exe) is GNU ld
configure:4658: result: yes
configure:4670: checking for BSD- or MS-compatible name lister (nm)
configure:4719: result: /mingw/bin/nm
configure:4849: checking the name lister (/mingw/bin/nm) interface
configure:4856: gcc -c -g -O2  conftest.c >&5
configure:4859: /mingw/bin/nm "conftest.o"
configure:4862: output
00000000 b .bss
00000000 d .data
00000000 N .debug_abbrev
00000000 N .debug_aranges
00000000 N .debug_info
00000000 N .debug_line
00000000 r .rdata$zzz
00000000 t .text
00000000 B _some_variable
configure:4869: result: BSD nm
configure:4872: checking whether ln -s works
configure:4879: result: no, using cp -p
configure:4884: checking the maximum length of command line arguments
configure:5009: result: 8192
configure:5026: checking whether the shell understands some XSI constructs
configure:5036: result: yes
configure:5040: checking whether the shell understands "+="
configure:5046: result: yes
configure:5081: checking how to convert i686-pc-mingw32 file names to i686-pc-mingw32 format
configure:5121: result: func_convert_file_msys_to_w32
configure:5128: checking how to convert i686-pc-mingw32 file names to toolchain format
configure:5148: result: func_convert_file_msys_to_w32
configure:5155: checking for c:/mingw/mingw32/bin/ld.exe option to reload object files
configure:5162: result: -r
configure:5236: checking for objdump
configure:5252: found /mingw/bin/objdump
configure:5263: result: objdump
configure:5295: checking how to recognize dependent libraries
configure:5497: result: file_magic ^x86 archive import|^x86 DLL
configure:5582: checking for dlltool
configure:5598: found /mingw/bin/dlltool
configure:5609: result: dlltool
configure:5642: checking how to associate runtime and link libraries
configure:5669: result: func_cygming_dll_for_implib
configure:5730: checking for ar
configure:5746: found /mingw/bin/ar
configure:5757: result: ar
configure:5794: checking for archiver @FILE support
configure:5811: gcc -c -g -O2  conftest.c >&5
configure:5811: $? = 0
configure:5814: ar cru libconftest.a @conftest.lst >&5
configure:5817: $? = 0
configure:5822: ar cru libconftest.a @conftest.lst >&5
c:\mingw\bin\ar.exe: conftest.o: No such file or directory
configure:5825: $? = 1
configure:5837: result: @
configure:5895: checking for strip
configure:5911: found /mingw/bin/strip
configure:5922: result: strip
configure:5994: checking for ranlib
configure:6010: found /mingw/bin/ranlib
configure:6021: result: ranlib
configure:6123: checking command to parse /mingw/bin/nm output from gcc object
configure:6242: gcc -c -g -O2  conftest.c >&5
configure:6245: $? = 0
configure:6249: /mingw/bin/nm conftest.o \| sed -n -e 's/^.*[ ]\([ABCDGIRSTW][ABCDGIRSTW]*\)[ ][ ]*\([_A-Za-z][_A-Za-z0-9]*\)\{0,1\}$/\1 \2 \2/p' | sed '/ __gnu_lto/d' \> conftest.nm
configure:6252: $? = 0
cannot find nm_test_var in conftest.nm
configure:6242: gcc -c -g -O2  conftest.c >&5
configure:6245: $? = 0
configure:6249: /mingw/bin/nm conftest.o \| sed -n -e 's/^.*[ ]\([ABCDGIRSTW][ABCDGIRSTW]*\)[ ][ ]*_\([_A-Za-z][_A-Za-z0-9]*\)\{0,1\}$/\1 _\2 \2/p' | sed '/ __gnu_lto/d' \> conftest.nm
configure:6252: $? = 0
configure:6318: gcc -o conftest.exe -g -O2   conftest.c conftstm.o >&5
configure:6321: $? = 0
configure:6359: result: ok
configure:6396: checking for sysroot
configure:6426: result: no
configure:6669: checking for mt
configure:6699: result: no
configure:6719: checking if : is a manifest tool
configure:6725: : '-?'
configure:6733: result: no
configure:7365: checking how to run the C preprocessor
configure:7396: gcc -E  conftest.c
configure:7396: $? = 0
configure:7410: gcc -E  conftest.c
conftest.c:11:28: fatal error: ac_nonexistent.h: No such file or directory
 #include <ac_nonexistent.h>
                            ^
compilation terminated.
configure:7410: $? = 1
configure: failed program was:
| /* confdefs.h */
| #define PACKAGE_NAME "modsecurity"
| #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "modsecurity"
| #define PACKAGE_VERSION "2.7"
| #define PACKAGE_STRING "modsecurity 2.7"
| #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT "support@modsecurity.org"
| #define PACKAGE_URL ""
| #define PACKAGE "modsecurity"
| #define VERSION "2.7"
| /* end confdefs.h.  */
| #include <ac_nonexistent.h>
configure:7435: result: gcc -E
configure:7455: gcc -E  conftest.c
configure:7455: $? = 0
configure:7469: gcc -E  conftest.c
conftest.c:11:28: fatal error: ac_nonexistent.h: No such file or directory
 #include <ac_nonexistent.h>
                            ^
compilation terminated.
configure:7469: $? = 1
configure: failed program was:
| /* confdefs.h */
| #define PACKAGE_NAME "modsecurity"
| #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "modsecurity"
| #define PACKAGE_VERSION "2.7"
| #define PACKAGE_STRING "modsecurity 2.7"
| #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT "support@modsecurity.org"
| #define PACKAGE_URL ""
| #define PACKAGE "modsecurity"
| #define VERSION "2.7"
| /* end confdefs.h.  */
| #include <ac_nonexistent.h>
configure:7498: checking for ANSI C header files
configure:7518: gcc -c -g -O2  conftest.c >&5
configure:7518: $? = 0
configure:7591: gcc -o conftest.exe -g -O2   conftest.c  >&5
configure:7591: $? = 0
configure:7591: ./conftest.exe
configure:7591: $? = 0
configure:7602: result: yes
configure:7615: checking for sys/types.h
configure:7615: gcc -c -g -O2  conftest.c >&5
configure:7615: $? = 0
configure:7615: result: yes
configure:7615: checking for sys/stat.h
configure:7615: gcc -c -g -O2  conftest.c >&5
configure:7615: $? = 0
configure:7615: result: yes
configure:7615: checking for stdlib.h
configure:7615: gcc -c -g -O2  conftest.c >&5
configure:7615: $? = 0
configure:7615: result: yes
configure:7615: checking for string.h
configure:7615: gcc -c -g -O2  conftest.c >&5
configure:7615: $? = 0
configure:7615: result: yes
configure:7615: checking for memory.h
configure:7615: gcc -c -g -O2  conftest.c >&5
configure:7615: $? = 0
configure:7615: result: yes
configure:7615: checking for strings.h
configure:7615: gcc -c -g -O2  conftest.c >&5
configure:7615: $? = 0
configure:7615: result: yes
configure:7615: checking for inttypes.h
configure:7615: gcc -c -g -O2  conftest.c >&5
configure:7615: $? = 0
configure:7615: result: yes
configure:7615: checking for stdint.h
configure:7615: gcc -c -g -O2  conftest.c >&5
configure:7615: $? = 0
configure:7615: result: yes
configure:7615: checking for unistd.h
configure:7615: gcc -c -g -O2  conftest.c >&5
configure:7615: $? = 0
configure:7615: result: yes
configure:7629: checking for dlfcn.h
configure:7629: gcc -c -g -O2  conftest.c >&5
configure:7629: $? = 0
configure:7629: result: yes
configure:7815: checking for objdir
configure:7830: result: .libs
configure:8101: checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions
configure:8119: gcc -c -g -O2  -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions conftest.c >&5
cc1.exe: warning: command line option '-fno-rtti' is valid for C++/ObjC++ but not for C [enabled by default]
configure:8123: $? = 0
configure:8136: result: no
configure:8446: checking for gcc option to produce PIC
configure:8453: result: -DDLL_EXPORT -DPIC
configure:8461: checking if gcc PIC flag -DDLL_EXPORT -DPIC works
configure:8479: gcc -c -g -O2  -DDLL_EXPORT -DPIC -DPIC conftest.c >&5
configure:8483: $? = 0
configure:8496: result: yes
configure:8525: checking if gcc static flag -static works
configure:8553: result: yes
configure:8568: checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o
configure:8589: gcc -c -g -O2  -o out/conftest2.o conftest.c >&5
configure:8593: $? = 0
configure:8615: result: yes
configure:8623: checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o
configure:8670: result: yes
configure:8703: checking whether the gcc linker (c:/mingw/mingw32/bin/ld.exe) supports shared libraries
configure:9861: result: yes
configure:9898: checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in
configure:9906: gcc -c -g -O2  conftest.c >&5
configure:9909: $? = 0
configure:9924: gcc -shared conftest.o  -v -o ./conftest -Wl,--enable-auto-image-base -Xlinker --out-implib -Xlinker conftest 2\>\&1 \| /bin/grep  -lc  \>/dev/null 2\>\&1
configure:9927: $? = 1
configure:9941: result: yes
configure:10106: checking dynamic linker characteristics
configure:10842: result: Win32 ld.exe
configure:10949: checking how to hardcode library paths into programs
configure:10974: result: immediate
configure:11514: checking whether stripping libraries is possible
configure:11519: result: yes
configure:11554: checking if libtool supports shared libraries
configure:11556: result: yes
configure:11559: checking whether to build shared libraries
configure:11580: result: yes
configure:11583: checking whether to build static libraries
configure:11587: result: yes
configure:11628: checking for gawk
configure:11655: result: gawk
configure:11714: checking for gcc
configure:11741: result: gcc
configure:11970: checking for C compiler version
configure:11979: gcc --version >&5
gcc.exe (GCC) 4.8.1
Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

configure:11990: $? = 0
configure:11979: gcc -v >&5
Using built-in specs.
COLLECT_GCC=c:\mingw\bin\gcc.exe
COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=c:/mingw/bin/../libexec/gcc/mingw32/4.8.1/lto-wrapper.exe
Target: mingw32
Configured with: ../gcc-4.8.1/configure --prefix=/mingw --host=mingw32 --build=mingw32 --without-pic --enable-shared --enable-static --with-gnu-ld --enable-lto --enable-libssp --disable-multilib --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c++,ada --disable-sjlj-exceptions --with-dwarf2 --disable-win32-registry --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-version-specific-runtime-libs --with-gmp=/usr/src/pkg/gmp-5.1.2-1-mingw32-src/bld --with-mpc=/usr/src/pkg/mpc-1.0.1-1-mingw32-src/bld --with-mpfr= --with-system-zlib --with-gnu-as --enable-decimal-float=yes --enable-libgomp --enable-threads --with-libiconv-prefix=/mingw32 --with-libintl-prefix=/mingw --disable-bootstrap LDFLAGS=-s CFLAGS=-D_USE_32BIT_TIME_T
Thread model: win32
gcc version 4.8.1 (GCC) 
configure:11990: $? = 0
configure:11979: gcc -V >&5
gcc.exe: error: unrecognized command line option '-V'
gcc.exe: fatal error: no input files
compilation terminated.
configure:11990: $? = 1
configure:11979: gcc -qversion >&5
gcc.exe: error: unrecognized command line option '-qversion'
gcc.exe: fatal error: no input files
compilation terminated.
configure:11990: $? = 1
configure:11994: checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler
configure:12022: result: yes
configure:12031: checking whether gcc accepts -g
configure:12092: result: yes
configure:12109: checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89
configure:12186: result: none needed
configure:12208: checking dependency style of gcc
configure:12318: result: gcc3
configure:12338: checking how to run the C preprocessor
configure:12408: result: gcc -E
configure:12428: gcc -E  conftest.c
configure:12428: $? = 0
configure:12442: gcc -E  conftest.c
conftest.c:23:28: fatal error: ac_nonexistent.h: No such file or directory
 #include <ac_nonexistent.h>
                            ^
compilation terminated.
configure:12442: $? = 1
configure: failed program was:
| /* confdefs.h */
| #define PACKAGE_NAME "modsecurity"
| #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "modsecurity"
| #define PACKAGE_VERSION "2.7"
| #define PACKAGE_STRING "modsecurity 2.7"
| #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT "support@modsecurity.org"
| #define PACKAGE_URL ""
| #define PACKAGE "modsecurity"
| #define VERSION "2.7"
| #define STDC_HEADERS 1
| #define HAVE_SYS_TYPES_H 1
| #define HAVE_SYS_STAT_H 1
| #define HAVE_STDLIB_H 1
| #define HAVE_STRING_H 1
| #define HAVE_MEMORY_H 1
| #define HAVE_STRINGS_H 1
| #define HAVE_INTTYPES_H 1
| #define HAVE_STDINT_H 1
| #define HAVE_UNISTD_H 1
| #define HAVE_DLFCN_H 1
| #define LT_OBJDIR ".libs/"
| /* end confdefs.h.  */
| #include <ac_nonexistent.h>
configure:12471: checking whether ln -s works
configure:12478: result: no, using cp -p
configure:12482: checking whether make sets $(MAKE)
configure:12504: result: yes
configure:12513: checking for grep that handles long lines and -e
configure:12571: result: /bin/grep
configure:12634: checking for g++
configure:12650: found /mingw/bin/g++
configure:12661: result: g++
configure:12688: checking for C++ compiler version
configure:12697: g++ --version >&5
g++.exe (GCC) 4.8.1
Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
...

Answer 1

You have defined the option --enable-java-module but looks like JDK is not installed or not on PATH .

configure:16379: checking jni.h presence

configure:16379: gcc -E conftest.c

conftest.c:31:17: fatal error: jni.h: No such file or directory

#include

And output variables are empty

JAVAC=''

JNI_CPPFLAGS=''