How can I link libxml on MinGW when using an omnetpp shell?
I am using omnetpp on a windows 10 machine.
My problem happens when I am trying to install the 3rd party package from here
I think that there is a problem in the Makefile failing to locate the libxml library
Following Rudi's answer (following the question) I changed the Makefile libxml path to I/mingw64/include/libxml2 but I still
get a undefined reference to 'xmlFunctionName' error (for many function names)
I tried to isolate the problem and to compile a sample of code from libxml2
Following the compilation guide: using gcc `xml2-config --cflags --libs` -o tree2 tree2.c
I got a fatal error: 'libxml/parser.h' file not found
When I replaced xml2-config --cflags --libs with -I/mingw64/include/libxml2
I got the same error as before undefined reference to 'xmlFunctionName'
what can I do to resolve that issue?
To this specific problem: libxml2 is actually already present as OMNET 5.x also uses it. All dependencies and tools are available in the tools/win64/mingw64 directory. The problem is that (for unknown reasons) the include file of the include/libxml2/libxml folder. The configure script correctly detects this and makes it available in the Makefile.inc as XML_CFLAGS= = -I/mingw64/include/libxml2
This must be added to the compiler flags for each file where you want to use the XML parser. (the library files are in the /mingw64/lib folder) so those are detected and can be used without additional config.
Generally, third party libraries should be available in the /mingw64/include and /mingw64/lib folders. You can either copy them manually there or try to install it with the mingw package manager (however that will most likely ruin your omnet installation as mingw64 is not particularly consistent and it is a rolling release - i.e. this is highly not recommended).
I am trying to install latest version glib version 2.64.3 library which uses meson build system to compile glib code.
While installing glib i am trying to give custom options to compiler to compile with specific gcc version...etc.
Here is my command :-
/test/common/pkgs/python/v3.6.1/bin/meson setup glib_install -Dbuild.cpp_args="-fPIC" -Dbuild.c_args='-fPIC -O2' -Dc_link_args='/test/common/pkgs/gcc/v6.3.0/lib64' -Ddefault_library=both -Db_staticpic=true -Dprefix='/home/user/test/glib-2.64.3/glib-2.64.3/glib_install'
I am getting following issue :-
The Meson build system
Version: 0.54.2
Source dir: /home/user/extlibs/glib-2.64.3/glib-2.64.3
Build dir: /home/user/extlibs/glib-2.64.3/glib-2.64.3/glib_install
Build type: native build
WARNING: Unknown options: "c_args, cpp_args"
The value of new options can be set with:
meson setup <builddir> --reconfigure -Dnew_option=new_value ...
Project name: glib
Project version: 2.64.3
meson.build:1:0: ERROR: Compiler cc can not compile programs.
I am not sure if i am missing something here. I could not find much info about like how can we provide custom arguments to use specific compiler flags while running meson. Let me know if i am missing something here.
Check in your glib_install/meson-logs/meson-log.txt file to see why the configuration is failing, but as a start it seems you need to pass -Dcpp_args="-fPIC" -Dc_args='-fPIC -O2' (without build.) on the command line.
I was trying to install gozmq with the usual go get:
go get github.com/alecthomas/gozmq
However, I was having the following error:
# pkg-config --cflags libzmq libzmq libzmq libzmq
exec: "pkg-config": executable file not found in $PATH
I don't really understand what this error means. Does it mean that its trying to run the command # pkg-config --cflags libzmq libzmq libzmq libzmqand its failing because pkg-config is not on $PATH? What is pkg-config anyway and why do I need it? how do I install it?
I tried brew installing pkg-config but it didn't work and it threw me the following error:
# pkg-config --cflags libzmq libzmq libzmq libzmq
Package libzmq was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libzmq.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'libzmq' found
Package libzmq was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libzmq.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'libzmq' found
Package libzmq was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libzmq.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'libzmq' found
Package libzmq was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `libzmq.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'libzmq' found
exit status 1
not sure why that happened.
EDIT:
As the first answerer suggested, I did:
brew install --devel zeromq
however, I get the following error after I do go get github.com/alecthomas/gozmq
Error:
# github.com/alecthomas/gozmq
37: error: use of undeclared identifier 'ZMQ_SWAP'
37: error: use of undeclared identifier 'ZMQ_RECOVERY_IVL_MSEC'
37: error: use of undeclared identifier 'ZMQ_MCAST_LOOP'
38: error: use of undeclared identifier 'ZMQ_HWM'
seem to be "normal" go errors/warning. But they come from a library I got online. I am not sure what to do, if I should fix them myself or what I should to to address it or e-mail the original developers/community or git issue etc.
You need to install the development versions of those libraries.
$ brew install --devel zeromq
According to issue 98, if you're using zeromq v3.x you need to use :
go get -tags zmq_3_x github.com/alecthomas/gozmq
# or if you're using 4x
go get -tags zmq_4_x github.com/alecthomas/gozmq
Check the README.
When running configure it fails with
checking for leptonica... yes
checking for pixCreate in -llept... no
configure: error: leptonica library missing
But I have leptonica 1.69 built (downloaded source and ran ./configure && make install)
Edit
I think configure: error: leptonica library missing is a bit misleading, please note that it first says checking for leptonica... yes, and then fails on checking for pixCreate in -llept... no. So maybe the problem is not that the library is missing, but something else.
I finally managed to make it compile, after reading this and this thread. The proper steps for were:
./autogen.sh
export LIBLEPT_HEADERSDIR=/local/include
./configure --with-extra-libraries=/local/lib
make install
for leptonica 1.69, lib renamed to .libs, so, parameters are
export LIBLEPT_HEADERSDIR=<your_path>/leptonica-1.69/src
./autogen.sh
./configure --prefix= --with-extra-libraries=<your_path>/leptonica-1.69/src/.libs
and so on
Maybe this could solve the issue:
export LIBLEPT_HEADERSDIR=/usr-or-other/local/include
I am working on redhat linux 7.2 . None of the solution worked for me I was getting following errors in config.log. Package lept was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `lept.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable PKG_CONFIG_PATH
configure script uses pkg-config utility to check for packages . It was not able to find lept package ( although i had installed leptonica seperately ) By setting PKG_CONFIG_PATH pointing to the directory where lept.pc is present , i was able to resolve the issue . export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
The FAQ addresses this issue and worked for me with tesseract 3.02.02 on Mac OSX 10.6.8.
Apart from the Leptonica library, png, jpeg, tiff libraries had to passed to the configure script with CXX and CPP flags.
To run configure as non-root -
1. LIBLEPT_HEADERSDIR=; export LIBLEPT_HEADERSDIR;
2. CXXFLAGS="-ltiff -lpng -ljpeg" CPPFLAGS="-ltiff -lpng -ljpeg" ./configure --prefix= --with-extra-libraries=
In my case, this issue was caused by a missing compiler. Searching config.log revealed the following:
./configure:17287: g++ -o conftest -I/Usr/local/include/leptonica -L/usr/local/lib conftest.cpp -llept >&5
./configure: line 2040: g++ command not found
Running apt-get install g++ solved the problem. There is an issue in the tesseract issue tracker about this.
In my case (for Ubuntu/Debian) I downloaded the latest leptonica version and the error was not fixed.
To fix it I removed the package "leptonica-dev" with sudo apt-get remove libleptonica-dev and then tesseract found the leptonica version installed from the source code.
Hope it helps!
The answer is going to be slightly different for everyone, depending on the state of your system.
At a high level, the pkg-config software needs to know that leptonica is installed. It searches paths for a .pc file that has the definition for the leptonica package. That file will be in different locations for different people.
You can find it using the Linux locate utility at the command line. locate lept.pc. (If you've done some recent installing/uninstalling, you may need to refresh the locate utilities database with the command updatedb.)
Whichever directory locate finds the file in, export PKG_CONFIG_PATH as that directory (export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig for example).
Then you can continue your configure/build.
i had a similar problem with trying to compile from source, but did not experience it with
apt-get to install tesseract
sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr
export LIBLEPT_HEADERSDIR=$dir/letonica168/include
./autogen.sh
./configure --prefix=$anotherdir --with-extra-libraries=/$dir/letonica168/lib
make
make install
I am, trying to find the gstreamer lib in windows (msvc) using pkg-config
pkg-config gstreamer-0.10 --cflags --libs
but i am getting any result like this
Package gstreamer-0.10 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gstreamer-0.10.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'gstreamer-0.10' found
a .pc like is created when a library is installed (automatically through the use of an RPM, deb, or other binary packaging system or by compiling from the source).I can't find the .pc file in my gstreamer directory.
Should i just create a .pc file with all the necessary details.
prefix=C:\Program Files (x86)\OSSBuild\GStreamer\v0.10.7
exec_prefix=${prefix}
libdir=${exec_prefix}\lib
includedir=${prefix}\sdk\include\gstreamer-0.10
toolsdir=${exec_prefix}\bin
pluginsdir=${exec_prefix}\lib\gstreamer-0.10
datarootdir=${prefix}\share
datadir=${datarootdir}
girdir=${datadir}/gir-1.0
typelibdir=${libdir}/girepository-1.0
Name: GStreamer
Description: Streaming media framework
Requires: glib-2.0, gobject-2.0, gmodule-no-export-2.0, gthread-2.0, libxml-2.0
Version: 0.10.35
Libs: -L${libdir} -lgstreamer-0.10
Cflags: -I${includedir}
or there is any other way to do this or Am i missing somthing?
Hope you can help.Thankz for taking the time to read the problem.
Well i am doing this to find solution why i am getting not found message in my waf configure for gstreamer
conf.check_cfg(atleast_pkgconfig_version='0.0.0')
conf.check_cfg(package='gstreamer-0.10', uselib_store='GSTREAMER', args='--cflags --libs', mandatory=True)
the code works in linux and is supposed to work in windows too.
ADDED LATER
Well making the .pc and setting a path of the .pc dir to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable does the trick.Its not hard do it
Check out this out. Thankz for readings and helping me..:)
pkg-config is a great tool but unfortunately on Windows (vs. UNIX) there is no standard executable PATH or PKG_CONFIG_PATH.
While you can revert to defining options --with-gstreamer-include-dir ... --with-gstreamer-lib-dir ... and avoid the pkg-config dependency, you can also use --pkgconfig-exe c:\path\to\pkg-config.exe --pkgconfig-path c:\path\to\gstreamer;c:\path\to\otherlib, which will help having a good-looking wscript, especially when using a lot of pkg-config libs.
The typical Win32 user may have issues setting PKG_CONFIG_PATH and PATH directly or stumbling onto a cryptic "not found" error and then checking config.log.
If you do add the windows-specific pkg-config options, it might be interesting for everybody.
You could write a pkgconfig_opts tool and submit it as a waf extra.