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Building on Linux does not generate makensis binary for me

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eSquire#

Building on Linux does not generate makensis binary for me

Hi everybody,

I've been trying to build a makensis binary w/o cross-compiler on my Linux x86_64 system.

Here's what happens:



intern:~/nsis-2.39-src # scons SKIPSTUBS=all SKIPPLUGINS=all SKIPUTILS=all SKIPMISC=all \

 NSIS_CONFIG_CONST_DATA=no PREFIX=~/nsis-2.39 install-compiler

scons: Reading SConscript files ...

Delete("nsis-05-Sep-2008.cvs")

Delete(".instdist")

Delete(".test")

Using GNU tools configuration

Checking for compiler flag -m32... yes

Checking for linker flag -m32... no

Checking for linker flag $MAP_FLAG... no

Checking for linker flag -s... no

Checking for linker flag $MAP_FLAG... yes

Checking for compiler flag -m32... yes

Checking for linker flag -m32... no

Checking for linker flag -s... no

Checking for compiler flag -m32... yes

Checking for linker flag -m32... no

Checking for memcpy requirement... yes

Checking for memset requirement... yes

Checking for linker flag -pthread... no

Checking for __BIG_ENDIAN__... no

Checking for C library gdi32... no

Checking for C library user32... no

Checking for C library pthread... no

Checking for C library iconv... no

Checking for C library dl... no

Checking for C library gdi32... no

Checking for C library iconv... no

Checking for C library pthread... no

Checking for C library user32... no

Checking for C++ library cppunit... no

scons: done reading SConscript files.

scons: Building targets ...

gcc -o build/release/makensis/crc32.o -c -O2 -Wall -m32 -D_WIN32_IE=0x0500 Source/crc32.c

gcc -o build/release/makensis/bzip2/blocksort.o -c -O2 -Wall -m32 -D_WIN32_IE=0x0500 Source/bzip2/blocksort.c

gcc -o build/release/makensis/bzip2/bzlib.o -c -O2 -Wall -m32 -D_WIN32_IE=0x0500 Source/bzip2/bzlib.c

gcc -o build/release/makensis/bzip2/compress.o -c -O2 -Wall -m32 -D_WIN32_IE=0x0500 Source/bzip2/compress.c

gcc -o build/release/makensis/bzip2/huffman.o -c -O2 -Wall -m32 -D_WIN32_IE=0x0500 Source/bzip2/huffman.c

gcc -o build/release/makensis/zlib/deflate.o -c -O2 -Wall -m32 -D_WIN32_IE=0x0500 Source/zlib/deflate.c

gcc -o build/release/makensis/zlib/trees.o -c -O2 -Wall -m32 -D_WIN32_IE=0x0500 Source/zlib/trees.c

scons: done building targets.
I'm missing a makensis binary?! The build/release/makensis directory has none, neither has the zip installation directory. Or am I just looking in the wrong place?

Here are my binary versions:


intern:~ # scons -v

SCons by Steven Knight et al.:

        script: v0.98.3.r2928, 2008/04/29 22:44:09, by knight on bangkok

        engine: v0.98.3.r2928, 2008/04/29 22:44:09, by knight on bangkok

Copyright (c) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 The SCons Foundation



intern:~ # python -V

Python 2.5.1



intern:~ # gcc -v

Using built-in specs.

Target: x86_64-suse-linux

Configured with: ../configure --enable-threads=posix --prefix=/usr --with-local-prefix=/usr/local 

 --infodir=/usr/share/info --mandir=/usr/share/man --libdir=/usr/lib64 --libexecdir=/usr/lib64

 --enable-languages=c,c++,objc,fortran,obj-c++,java,ada --enable-checking=release

 --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.2.1 --enable-ssp --disable-libssp --disable-libgcj

 --with-slibdir=/lib64 --with-system-zlib --enable-shared --enable-__cxa_atexit

 --enable-libstdcxx-allocator=new --disable-libstdcxx-pch --program-suffix=-4.2

 --enable-version-specific-runtime-libs --without-system-libunwind --with-cpu=generic --host=x86_64-suse-linux

Thread model: posix

gcc version 4.2.1 (SUSE Linux)
I'm not familiar with scons and cross-compiling, so any help would be really appreciated.

Thanks in advance!
kichik#
The compiler should be installed into ~/nsis-2.39. Try providing a full path if that does work. I think I came across scons not eating the wave symbol once.
eSquire#
Thanks for your prompt reply, kichik!

Originally posted by kichik
The compiler should be installed into ~/nsis-2.39.
It is:


intern:~ # ll -d nsis*

drwxr-xr-x 10 root root    4096 Sep  5 11:45 nsis-2.39

drwxrwxrwx 12 root root    4096 Sep  5 14:03 nsis-2.39-src

-rw-r--r--  1 root root 1474305 Sep  5 11:44 nsis-2.39-src.tar.bz2

-rw-r--r--  1 root root 2277754 Sep  5 11:44 nsis-2.39.zip
Originally posted by kichik
Try providing a full path if that does work. I think I came across scons not eating the wave symbol once.
Here we go (with a clean extracted source tarball):


intern:~/nsis-2.39-src # scons SKIPSTUBS=all SKIPPLUGINS=all SKIPUTILS=all \

 SKIPMISC=all NSIS_CONFIG_CONST_DATA=no PREFIX=/root/nsis-2.39 install-compiler

scons: Reading SConscript files ...

Delete("nsis-05-Sep-2008.cvs")

Delete(".instdist")

Delete(".test")

Using GNU tools configuration

Checking for compiler flag -m32... yes

Checking for linker flag -m32... no

Checking for linker flag $MAP_FLAG... no

Checking for linker flag -s... no

Checking for linker flag $MAP_FLAG... yes

Checking for compiler flag -m32... yes

Checking for linker flag -m32... no

Checking for linker flag -s... no

Checking for compiler flag -m32... yes

Checking for linker flag -m32... no

Checking for memcpy requirement... yes

Checking for memset requirement... yes

Checking for linker flag -pthread... no

Checking for __BIG_ENDIAN__... no

Checking for C library gdi32... no

Checking for C library user32... no

Checking for C library pthread... no

Checking for C library iconv... no

Checking for C library dl... no

Checking for C library gdi32... no

Checking for C library iconv... no

Checking for C library pthread... no

Checking for C library user32... no

Checking for C++ library cppunit... no

scons: done reading SConscript files.

scons: Building targets ...

gcc -o build/release/makensis/crc32.o -c -O2 -Wall -m32 -D_WIN32_IE=0x0500 Source/crc32.c

gcc -o build/release/makensis/bzip2/blocksort.o -c -O2 -Wall -m32 -D_WIN32_IE=0x0500 Source/bzip2/blocksort.c

gcc -o build/release/makensis/bzip2/bzlib.o -c -O2 -Wall -m32 -D_WIN32_IE=0x0500 Source/bzip2/bzlib.c

gcc -o build/release/makensis/bzip2/compress.o -c -O2 -Wall -m32 -D_WIN32_IE=0x0500 Source/bzip2/compress.c

gcc -o build/release/makensis/bzip2/huffman.o -c -O2 -Wall -m32 -D_WIN32_IE=0x0500 Source/bzip2/huffman.c

gcc -o build/release/makensis/zlib/deflate.o -c -O2 -Wall -m32 -D_WIN32_IE=0x0500 Source/zlib/deflate.c

gcc -o build/release/makensis/zlib/trees.o -c -O2 -Wall -m32 -D_WIN32_IE=0x0500 Source/zlib/trees.c

scons: done building targets.



intern:~/nsis-2.39-src # ll build/release/makensis/

total 4

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  71 Sep  5 14:08 bzip2

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 896 Sep  5 14:08 crc32.o

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  36 Sep  5 14:08 zlib



intern:~ # ll /root/nsis-2.39

total 1680

drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    103 Sep  5 11:45 Bin

-rw-rw-rw-  1 root root  15632 Dec 22  2007 COPYING

drwxr-xr-x  8 root root    100 Sep  5 11:45 Contrib

drwxr-xr-x 20 root root   4096 Sep  5 11:45 Docs

drwxr-xr-x 16 root root   4096 Sep  5 11:45 Examples

drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   4096 Sep  5 11:45 Include

drwxr-xr-x  3 root root     36 Sep  5 11:45 Menu

-rw-rw-rw-  1 root root 347464 Aug 16 23:25 NSIS.chm

-rw-r--r--  1 root root 699392 Aug 16 23:25 NSIS.exe

drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   4096 Sep  5 11:45 Plugins

drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    105 Sep  5 11:45 Stubs

-rw-r--r--  1 root root 492544 Aug 16 23:25 makensis.exe

-rw-r--r--  1 root root 136192 Aug 16 23:25 makensisw.exe

-rw-rw-rw-  1 root root   1726 Dec  1  2007 nsisconf.nsh
Still the same. I don't know, shouldn't the build output include some lines about the makensis binary, not just the archive libraries?
kichik#
It should and it does for me. Try replacing `install-compiler` with `/root/nsis-2.39/makensis`.
eSquire#edited
Still not working

Whoa, this starts to feel like a chatroom. 🙂
Originally posted by kichik
It should and it does for me. Try replacing `install-compiler` with `/root/nsis-2.39/makensis`.
Doing that just produces:
...

scons: *** Do not know how to make target `/root/nsis-2.39/makensis'.  Stop.

...
Using only 'makensis' as a target gives:
intern:~/nsis-2.39-src # scons  SKIPSTUBS=all SKIPPLUGINS=all SKIPUTILS=all \

 SKIPMISC=all NSIS_CONFIG_CONST_DATA=no PREFIX=/root/nsis-2.39 makensis

scons: Reading SConscript files ...

Delete("nsis-05-Sep-2008.cvs")

Delete(".instdist")

Delete(".test")

Using GNU tools configuration

Checking for compiler flag -m32... yes

Checking for linker flag -m32... no

Checking for linker flag $MAP_FLAG... no

Checking for linker flag -s... no

Checking for linker flag $MAP_FLAG... yes

Checking for compiler flag -m32... yes

Checking for linker flag -m32... no

Checking for linker flag -s... no

Checking for compiler flag -m32... yes

Checking for linker flag -m32... no

Checking for memcpy requirement... yes

Checking for memset requirement... yes

Checking for linker flag -pthread... no

Checking for __BIG_ENDIAN__... no

Checking for C library gdi32... no

Checking for C library user32... no

Checking for C library pthread... no

Checking for C library iconv... no

Checking for C library dl... no

Checking for C library gdi32... no

Checking for C library iconv... no

Checking for C library pthread... no

Checking for C library user32... no

Checking for C++ library cppunit... no

scons: done reading SConscript files.

scons: Building targets ...

gcc -o build/release/makensis/crc32.o -c -O2 -Wall -m32 -D_WIN32_IE=0x0500 Source/crc32.c

gcc -o build/release/makensis/bzip2/blocksort.o -c -O2 -Wall -m32 -D_WIN32_IE=0x0500 Source/bzip2/blocksort.c

gcc -o build/release/makensis/bzip2/bzlib.o -c -O2 -Wall -m32 -D_WIN32_IE=0x0500 Source/bzip2/bzlib.c

gcc -o build/release/makensis/bzip2/compress.o -c -O2 -Wall -m32 -D_WIN32_IE=0x0500 Source/bzip2/compress.c

gcc -o build/release/makensis/bzip2/huffman.o -c -O2 -Wall -m32 -D_WIN32_IE=0x0500 Source/bzip2/huffman.c

gcc -o build/release/makensis/zlib/deflate.o -c -O2 -Wall -m32 -D_WIN32_IE=0x0500 Source/zlib/deflate.c

gcc -o build/release/makensis/zlib/trees.o -c -O2 -Wall -m32 -D_WIN32_IE=0x0500 Source/zlib/trees.c

scons: done building targets.
Sadly, no surprises here. The build and compiler directories look the same as above.

Anything else I should try?
kichik#
What happens when you don't specify a target? Try also running scons with --tree=all and attach the output here.
eSquire#
Thanks for your patience, kichik!
Originally posted by kichik
What happens when you don't specify a target?
Still no makensis binary. 🙁
Originally posted by kichik
Try also running scons with --tree=all and attach the output here.
Exactly the same output. Please see the attached file. I really wish I knew more about scons.
kichik#
--tree=all is for debugging, but it was ignored in your case. You're probably using an old version of scons where it's still --debug=dtree or --debug=tree. The output should be huge with that one. Make sure to still pass `install-compiler` along with it.
eSquire#
now we're getting somewhere

Originally posted by kichik
--tree=all is for debugging, but it was ignored in your case. You're probably using an old version of scons where it's still --debug=dtree or --debug=tree. The output should be huge with that one. Make sure to still pass `install-compiler` along with it.
I was using scons 0.98.3.r2928; it supports the --tree=all option, so the output above seemed to be correct. 🤪

BUT: I compiled scons 1.0.0 anyway and tried it again. Now we're getting somewhere: long logfile attached. Not working, but it's a completely different problem.

Looks like the OpenSuSE 10.3 packaged scons is not working for NSIS - it doesn't detect/use/whatever the g++ compiler?

Here's the result of 
intern:~/nsis-2.39-src # scons --tree=all SKIPSTUBS=all SKIPPLUGINS=all SKIPUTILS=all SKIPMISC=all \

 NSIS_CONFIG_CONST_DATA=no PREFIX=/root/nsis-2.39 install-compiler &> ../tree-all-scons100.log
eSquire#
I really appreciate your dedication. 🙂 Isn't it getting late at your whereabouts?
Originally posted by kichik
What does config.log show after running scons once on a clean source tree?
Here it is.

I'll be headed to bed soon myself, so my response times will be delayed for about the next 10 hours. 😁
kichik#
It successfully discovered there's no need for stdc++ on your system. Is the build log still the same after a clean build? It shouldn't have passed -lstdc++ with this config.log.