can not compile dbus 1.6.2 on Win 7 64 bits

[Vincent Torri]

On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 6:32 PM, Earnie Boyd
<earnie at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Vincent Torri wrote:
>> Hey
>>
>> I have installed MSYS, mingw-w64 64 bits 4.7.0.
>> I have compiled and installed expat 2.1.0 myself in /usr/local
>> I have configure dbus with just ./configure
>> Then make :
>>
>> ....
>>
>>   CCLD   dbus-daemon.exe
>> c:/mingw/mingw-w64-x86_32/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/4.7.0/../../../../x86_64-w64-mingw32/bin/ld.exe:
>> cannot find -lrt
>> collect2.exe: error: ld returned 1 exit status
>>
>> so -lrt is passed somewhere while it does not exist on Windows.
>>
>> If you want more informations, please tell me.
>>
>> Note : some warnings:
>>
>> 1)
>>
>> In file included from dbus-sockets-win.h:36:0,
>>                  from dbus-sysdeps-win.c:49:
>> c:\mingw\mingw-w64-x86_32\bin\../lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/4.7.0/../../../../x86_64-w64-mingw32/include/winsock2.h:15:2
>> : warning: #warning Please include winsock2.h before windows.h [-Wcpp]
>>
>
> More stupidity from Microsoft.  You can also define
> WINDOWS_LEAN_AND_MEAN to avoid the conflict.  The conflict itself is
> that winsock.h (version 1) is included by default when windows.h is
> included without declaring WINDOWS_LEAN_AND_MEAN which interferes with
> winsock2.h.

indeed, that solution was also proposed (maybe by you, btw). Though I
don't just define it but instead

#ifndef WINDOWS_LEAN_AND_MEAN
# define WINDOWS_LEAN_AND_MEAN
#endif

because i've already included headers from other project that do not undef it.

Vincent Torri

>
>> that's something to fix. You can find some arguments why it must be
>> fixed in the mingw-w64 ML, iirc.
>>
>
> The winsock2.h header checks to see that _WINSOCKAPI_ isn't defined
> which indicates that winsock.h has been included.  IMO, the message
> isn't appropriate for the sin since one could also include winsock.h
> alone.
>
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> Earnie
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