I'm trying to build libxc-4.3.4 in an MSYS2 shell on Windows 10. I've installed the latest version of MSYS2 (msys2-x86_64-20220319.exe) and followed the installation instructions. I've installed build tools using
pacman -S --needed base-devel mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain autoconf
I've installed libxc dozens of time on Linux machines. The first step is
./configure --prefix /somewhere
But in MSYS2 I get
$ ./configure --prefix $PWD/../libxc
bash: ./configure: No such file or directory
How can I make this work?
CodePudding user response:
MSYS2 prerequisites
First of all make sure MSYS2 has all programs that are needed.
In the MSYS2 shell first update the package manager information:
pacman -Syu --noconfirm
Then install the packages you need. I would recommend at least these:
pacman -S --noconfirm autoconf autoconf-archive automake make libtool pkg-config
Project sources
Next you should make sure the folder you are in actually has a configure script:
ls -l configure
A lot of projects these days are switching to more efficient build systems like CMake or Meson. I usually use the following command in the projects source folder to check for several build systems:
ls -ld configure* m4 CMakeLists.txt cmake Makefile GNUmakefile setup.py scons SConscript SConstruct meson.build meson_options.txt *.pro *.proj *.sln BUILD.gn .gn 2> /dev/null
building libxc
For the libxc project I see there is a CMakeLists.txt
file and also a configure.ac
file.
So either you should look into using CMake or generate the configure
file with:
touch README ChangeLog
autoreconf -f -i -I m4
I have just tried to build libxc in MSYS2 with CMake and Ninja and this worked:
# set the line below to the desired install location
INSTALLPREFIX=D:\Prog\changeme
# build static library
cmake -Wno-dev -GNinja -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=$INSTALLPREFIX -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE:STRING=Release -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS:BOOL=OFF -DENABLE_PYTHON:BOOL=OFF -DBUILD_TESTING:BOOL=OFF -S. -Bbuild_static &&
ninja -Cbuild_static install/strip &&
echo SUCCESS
# build shared library
cmake -Wno-dev -GNinja -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=$INSTALLPREFIX -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE:STRING=Release -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS:BOOL=ON -DENABLE_PYTHON:BOOL=OFF -DBUILD_TESTING:BOOL=OFF -S. -Bbuild_shared &&
ninja -Cbuild_shared install/strip &&
echo SUCCESS