[Mono-devel-list] MSVC port in progress, a couple questions

J Lothian rhalin at gmail.com
Thu Feb 10 20:59:32 EST 2005 

On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 19:35:44 +0100, Paolo Molaro <lupus at ximian.com> wrote:
> On 02/10/05 J Lothian wrote:
> > First, just wanted to let everyone know that I'm working on getting
> > Mono compiling in MSVC.  I've mainly been working in VC 6, but ran
> 
> Great!
> 
> > into a couple conflicts with source that required the updated platform
> > SDK.  I get undefined errors without the SDK, and problems with some
> > of the SDK headers when it is included, something to due with defining
> > the platform your targetting, I believe.  I'll post errors if anyone
> > thinks they can help with it, but barring that I'll be trying it in
> 
> Error messages may help or give a clue to people that might know the answer.
> 
> > To speed up my project creation though, I was wondering if anyone had
> > a dependancy tree for the libraries, and/or a list of the libraries
> > themselves.  I've been able to piece together most of it by reading
> > through makefiles, I just want to make sure I'm not missing anything.
> 
> You might want to read the toplevel configure.in and the win32 makefile
> in libgc, too.

Gotcha, I believe I've got libgc compiling fine, no errors, but have
yet to test any of it.

> With automake we use helper libraries, but there is no reason you need to
> do the same: if you can, you should just build almost all the files into
> a mono.dll shared lib. Anyway, the helper libs we use are:
> 
> libgc/libmonogc.la
> mono/utils/libmonoutils.la
> mono/os/unix/libmonoos.la // you want the win32 version here
> mono/os/libmonoos.la
> mono/metadata/libmetadata.la
> mono/metadata/libmonoruntime.la
> mono/mini/libmono.la

Much much helpful, thanks!

> 
> You should just skip mint and the arch directory and the other libs that
> aren't important for a first cut. The libs first on the list are
> usually pre-reqs for libs further down.

Yeah, wishing I had skipped some of those non-essentials now, I had
everything in the metadata directory compiling just fine before I
installed the MS Platform SDK updates for a problem I had with the
dissassembler (which compiles with the updates), but now
mono/metadata/rand.c isn't very happy at all.  Here's an example of
what happens with the SDK directory being listed first in the include
path:

and.c
c:\program files\microsoft sdk\include\wincrypt.h(37) : error C2061:
syntax error : identifier 'HRESULT'
c:\program files\microsoft sdk\include\wincrypt.h(37) : error C2059:
syntax error : ';'
c:\program files\microsoft sdk\include\wincrypt.h(249) : error C2061:
syntax error : identifier 'HCRYPTPROV'
c:\program files\microsoft sdk\include\wincrypt.h(249) : error C2059:
syntax error : ';'
c:\program files\microsoft sdk\include\wincrypt.h(250) : error C2061:
syntax error : identifier 'HCRYPTKEY'
c:\program files\microsoft sdk\include\wincrypt.h(250) : error C2059:
syntax error : ';'

and so on, there's 102 of them

to give you an idea what it doesn't like, from wincrypt.h:
#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif

#ifndef _HRESULT_DEFINED
#define _HRESULT_DEFINED
typedef LONG HRESULT;    //error here!

#endif // !_HRESULT_DEFINED

----------------------------------------
 with the sdk removed from the include path, I now get this:

rand.c
H:\Data\Developement\VC\MonoVS\mono\metadata\rand.c(109) : error
C2065: 'HCRYPTPROV' : undeclared identifier
H:\Data\Developement\VC\MonoVS\mono\metadata\rand.c(109) : error
C2146: syntax error : missing ';' before identifier 'provider'
H:\Data\Developement\VC\MonoVS\mono\metadata\rand.c(109) : error
C2065: 'provider' : undeclared identifier
H:\Data\Developement\VC\MonoVS\mono\metadata\rand.c(116) : warning
C4013: 'CryptAcquireContext' undefined; assuming extern returning int
H:\Data\Developement\VC\MonoVS\mono\metadata\rand.c(118) : error
C2065: 'PROV_RSA_FULL' : undeclared identifier
H:\Data\Developement\VC\MonoVS\mono\metadata\rand.c(132) : warning
C4013: 'memcpy' undefined; assuming extern returning int
H:\Data\Developement\VC\MonoVS\mono\metadata\rand.c(134) : warning
C4013: 'CryptGenRandom' undefined; assuming extern returning int
H:\Data\Developement\VC\MonoVS\mono\metadata\rand.c(136) : warning
C4013: 'memset' undefined; assuming extern returning int
H:\Data\Developement\VC\MonoVS\mono\metadata\rand.c(147) : error
C2146: syntax error : missing ';' before identifier 'provider'
H:\Data\Developement\VC\MonoVS\mono\metadata\rand.c(147) : error
C2146: syntax error : missing ';' before identifier 'handle'
H:\Data\Developement\VC\MonoVS\mono\metadata\rand.c(148) : error
C2275: 'guint32' : illegal use of this type as an expression
        h:\data\developement\vc\monovs\vsdependancies\include\glibconfig.h(42)
: see declaration of 'guint32'
H:\Data\Developement\VC\MonoVS\mono\metadata\rand.c(148) : error
C2146: syntax error : missing ';' before identifier 'len'
H:\Data\Developement\VC\MonoVS\mono\metadata\rand.c(148) : error
C2065: 'len' : undeclared identifier
H:\Data\Developement\VC\MonoVS\mono\metadata\rand.c(149) : error
C2275: 'guchar' : illegal use of this type as an expression
        h:\data\developement\vc\monovs\vsdependancies\include\glib\gtypes.h(47)
: see declaration of 'guchar'
H:\Data\Developement\VC\MonoVS\mono\metadata\rand.c(149) : error
C2065: 'buf' : undeclared identifier
H:\Data\Developement\VC\MonoVS\mono\metadata\rand.c(152) : warning
C4013: 'CryptReleaseContext' undefined; assuming extern returning int
H:\Data\Developement\VC\MonoVS\mono\metadata\rand.c(154) : warning
C4047: '=' : 'int ' differs in levels of indirection from 'void *'
H:\Data\Developement\VC\MonoVS\mono\metadata\rand.c(166) : error
C2146: syntax error : missing ')' before identifier 'handle'
H:\Data\Developement\VC\MonoVS\mono\metadata\rand.c(166) : error
C2059: syntax error : ')'
Error executing cl.exe.

rand.obj - 13 error(s), 6 warning(s)

Keep in mind, this file compiled fine before I installed the platform
SDK.  I may try to figure out if I can remove it completely, but the
damage may already be done.



> At the end of the process there should be only one shared library,
> mono.dll. All the others are just built only as temporary libs
> used by the build tools like genmdesc.
> 
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One thing I think I should note, that while I can get it compiling
without error (or at least, I -had- at one point)  There were still a
good deal of warning messages (maybe a few hundred?), mostly
signed/unsigned mismatches, I'm assuming this isn't normal on the gcc
builds?

I'm trying to see how much of this build I can do without editing
source, so far, I've only had to change a few minor things here and
there, I'll make sure they work once I get this thing compiling again,
I'd rather avoid having to change the code as much as possible to
limit any trouble it may cause everyone else in the long run.

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