[pulseaudio-discuss] Error cross-compiling PulseAudio 4.99.2 for win32

[Thomas Martitz]

Am 26.01.2014 10:42, schrieb Tanu Kaskinen:
> On Sat, 2014-01-25 at 13:30 -0500, Michael DePaulo wrote:
>> I managed to cross-compile 3.0 and 4.0 (I will post the binaries
>> soon), but I ran into this error on 4.99.2.
>>
>> I am using mingw32 4.8.2 on opensuse 12.3 64-bit.
>>
>> Note that I specified "-disable-orc" because I got a different error
>> when when ORC was enabled.
>>
>> RPM spec:
>> http://pastebin.com/KXuk2vcX
>>
>> build log:
>> http://pastebin.com/v79sheyR
>>
>> [   81s]   CCLD     libpulsecommon-4.99.la
>> [   81s]
>> [   81s] *** Warning: Linking the shared library
>> libpulsecommon-4.99.la against the
>> [   81s] *** static library
>> /usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/lib/libintl.dll.a is not
>> portable!
>> [   81s] pulsecore/.libs/libpulsecommon_4.99_la-lock-autospawn.o: In
>> function `unref':
>> [   81s] /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/pulseaudio-4.99.2/src/pulsecore/lock-autospawn.c:123:
>> undefined reference to `pa_thread_free_nojoin'
>> [   81s] collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
> Thanks for reporting. pa_thread_free_nojoin() is only used with the
> autospawn code, and I think we don't support autospawning on Windows.
> Therefore, one possible fix would be to not compile lock-autospawn.c on
> Windows, or #ifdef the pa_thread_free_nojoin() call out. Another
> solution would be to make a dummy implementation of
> pa_thread_free_nojoin() for Windows (src/pulsecore/thread-win32.c). The
> function could just crash, since it's not supposed to be called.
>
> I'll have a better look into this later. If someone wants to help by
> writing the patch, please notify me so that we don't do duplicate work.
>

Your suggested approach sounds reasonable. It would be nice if this 
could land in time for 5.0 so it can be considered to support Windows.

Best regards.