Bug #9955: issue building dll on mingw, library not found

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: ruby 2.1.2p95 (2014-05-08 revision 45877) [i386-mingw32]
• Backport: 2.0.0: UNKNOWN, 2.1: UNKNOWN
• Tags: win, build

[lm (Laura Michaels)]

I hit a bug similar to https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/8901. I'm building Ruby on MinGW using msys. When I run make, it errors out when it attempts to create the msvcrt-ruby210.dll. It's unable to find libgmp. There's a libgmp.dll.a in /usr/local/lib. LDFLAGS is set to -L/usr/local/lib. I see that LDFLAGS is used to build the executable and static library. I can't find it used when the dynamic library is created. Looking at the makefile (and makefile.in) where LIBRUBY_SO is linked, there's LDSHARED and DLDFLAGS, but I couldn't find LDFLAGS in the link command and didn't see another relevant environment variable to set along with LDFLAGS. I checked github and the latest version of makefile.in, but didn't notice any changes to get the library locations from LDFLAGS.

I added the following to my build script after running configure and I'm able to build ruby successfully:
sed -i.bk0 -e "s|$(DLDFLAGS)|$(LDFLAGS) $(DLDFLAGS)|" Makefile

I just wanted to add, this is the first time I've attempted to build Ruby with MinGW and it's so much nicer to create a build script for and compile and build on Windows than Perl or Python. Looks like the developers did a very nice job on MinGW platform support. Thanks.

[nagachika (Tomoyuki Chikanaga)]

• Status changed from Open to Assigned

[naruse (Yui NARUSE)]

• Target version deleted (2.2.0)

[jeremyevans0 (Jeremy Evans)]

• Status changed from Assigned to Closed