Fails to compile with mingw...

[petasis]

Hi all,

I cannot compile rl_json with mingw under Fedora.
There is no file named "endian.h".

dnf whatprovides */endian.h |grep mingw
mingw32-boost-1.78.0-4.fc38.noarch : MinGW Windows Boost C++ library for the win32 target
Filename    : /usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/boost/predef/other/endian.h
mingw64-boost-1.78.0-4.fc38.noarch : MinGW Windows Boost C++ library for the win64 target
Filename    : /usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/boost/predef/other/endian.h

[cyanogilvie]

I'm a little confused - Fedora is a Linux environment, are you trying to cross-compile for Windows from Fedora?

If you're trying to build for Fedora itself, then just the normal unix build process is what you want.

[petasis]

Yes, I am trying to compile for windows from fedora.

[cyanogilvie]

I'm afraid I've never attempted to cross compile parse_args for Windows and I expect it would be a rough road to get that to work.

I last did anything like that over 20 years ago and generally have nothing to do with Windows as a platform these days, so I really don't have the expertise to help fix this issue. I'd be happy to accept patches to support cross compiling it for Windows if you figure it out though.

[teclabat]

The need for endian.h seems to be introduced in "Initial CBOR support" 7b447f8
The version v0.14 compiles fine in Windows using msys2 64bit.

[cyanogilvie]

I've made the CBOR support optional, disabled by default now (in preparation for factoring out as its own extension). This may work now (release 0.15.5), but cross compiling tends to be difficult to get right and quite fragile, so I wouldn't be surprised if it's still broken for other reasons.

I would be interested if it does work though, as it provides a path to support Windows builds that I could at least test.

[teclabat]

I am compiling using mingw64. All fixes are in this branch https://github.com/teclabat/fork-rljson/tree/wip