324004 - unable to compile firefox1.5 source on cygwin

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Description

[infyquest]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

unable to compile firefox1.5 source on cygwin 

vijaykiran@spice87 /cygdrive/c/tmp/mozilla
$ ./configure
loading cache ./config.cache
checking host system type... i686-pc-cygwin
checking target system type... i686-pc-cygwin
checking build system type... i686-pc-cygwin
checking for gawk... gawk
checking for nsinstall... no
checking for gcc... cl
checking whether the C compiler (cl  ) works... no
configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C compiler cannot creat
e executables.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install cygwin on any winxp box and download the firefox source in cygwin
2. unzip the firefox-1.5-source.tar.bz2 in cygwin
3. do ./configure

Actual Results:  
./configure fails

Expected Results:  
the configure should be successfull and should be able to compile on cygwin

I am using Cygwin on win xp sp1, and cygwin can be got from http://www.cygwin.com

Comment 1

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Did you follow the build requirements? What compiler are you trying to use?

http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Windows_Build_Prerequisites

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

If you open a command prompt, does it work if you try tu run "cl.exe" ?

Comment 3

[infyquest]

Hi,

I am using gcc 3.4.4

here is the output of gcc -V on cygwin

Reading specs from /bin/../lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/3.4.4/specs
Configured with: /gcc/gcc-3.4.4/gcc-3.4.4-1/configure --verbose --prefix=/usr --
exec-prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --libdir=/usr/lib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --man
dir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --enable-languages=c,ada,c++,d,f77,
java,objc --enable-nls --without-included-gettext --enable-version-specific-runt
ime-libs --without-x --enable-libgcj --disable-java-awt --with-system-zlib --ena
ble-interpreter --disable-libgcj-debug --enable-threads=posix --enable-java-gc=b
oehm --disable-win32-registry --enable-sjlj-exceptions --enable-hash-synchroniza
tion --enable-libstdcxx-debug : (reconfigured)
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.4.4 (cygming special) (gdc 0.12, using dmd 0.125)

There is no cl.exe in my PATH

I am using Unix Style line endings

Comment 4

[Benjamin Smedberg]

We don't support compiling with cygwin gcc. The primary compiler on windows is MSVC, and we also build with mingw gcc. To build with mingw you must explicitly set CC and CXX, as described on devmo: http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Compiling_Mozilla_With_Mingw

Comment 5

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

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