Re: Building gsl-1.14 with mingw64 in msys shell on MS Windows

["Sisyphus" <sisyphus1 at optusnet dot com dot au>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian Gladman" <brg@gladman.plus.com>

> > libtool: link: (cd .libs/libgsl.lax/libgslblock.a && ar x 
> > "/c/_64/comp/gsl-1.14/block/.libs/libgslblock.a")
> > libtool: link: object name conflicts in archive: 
> > .libs/libgsl.lax/libgslblock.a
> > //c/_64/comp/gsl-1.14/block/.libs/libgslblock.a

> > Does anyone here know what's required to get it to build successfully on 
> > this platform ? I can build a 32-bit library on the same PC, but I'd 
> > really like to have a 64-bit build if such is possible. Unfortunately, 
> > the error message doesn't mean anything to me.
>
> Not with mingw64. But I provide a 64-bit build of GSL-1.14 using Visual 
> Studio 2010 here:
>
> http://gladman.plushost.co.uk/oldsite/computing/gsl-1.14-vc10.zip

Thanks, Brian - for the moment, my interest is in having gsl build 
successfully with mingw64 in the MSYS shell.

It's probably not apparent in the post I sent but, in the actual output to 
the console, there's no space between ".libs/libgsl.lax/libgslblock.a" and 
"//c/_64/comp/gsl-1.14/block/.libs/libgslblock.a" in the error message - 
which strikes me as odd. And why are there *two* adjacent forward slashes in 
there ?

It's also odd that the preceding 'cd .libs/libgsl.lax/libgslblock.a && ar x 
"/c/_64/comp/gsl-1.14/block/.libs/libgslblock.a"' command has succeeded - 
and I can manually cd to .libs/libgsl.lax/libgslblock.a and run 'ar x 
"/c/_64/comp/gsl-1.14/block/.libs/libgslblock.a"' without any problems (and 
no warnings being emitted).

If there's no further response here by tomorrow morning I'll see if the guys 
on the mingw64 mailing list have any ideas as to what's going wrong. So 
near, and yet so far ...

Cheers,
Rob