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Here you can find detailed explanation of problems arising when building UIsimulator using !MinGW and gcc under MS Windows and how to solve these problems.

There are several difficulties when using !MinGW:
   * perl's fork doesn't work properly here thus making load balancing between CPU cores impossible (thanks to Zagor for [[http://www.rockbox.org/irc/log-20110208#01:00 explanation]])
   * command line length is limited thus breaking dependency generation
   * default perl (I have v5.10.0) doesn't correctly treat '-s' option thus breaking genlang tool
   * svnversion tool may not be available in your setup

Therefore few things should be done manually. We should disable multigcc.pl tool, and use response file to save on command line length.

<verbatim>Index: tools/functions.make
===================================================================
--- tools/functions.make	(revision 29245)
+++ tools/functions.make	(working copy)
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
 c2obj = $(addsuffix .o,$(basename $(subst $(ROOTDIR),$(BUILDDIR),$(1))))
 
 # calculate dependencies for a list of source files $(2) and output them to $(1)
-mkdepfile = $(SILENT)perl $(TOOLSDIR)/multigcc.pl $(CC) $(PPCFLAGS) $(OTHER_INC) -MG -MM -include config.h -- $(2) | \
+mkdepfile = $(SILENT)echo $(PPCFLAGS) $(OTHER_INC) -MG -MM -include config.h > rsp && $(SILENT)$(CC) @rsp $(2) | \
 	sed -e "s: lang.h: lang/lang.h:" \
 	-e 's:_asmdefs.o:_asmdefs.h:' \
 	-e "s: max_language_size.h: lang/max_language_size.h:" | \</verbatim>
---

To overcome difficulties with genlang tool, I suggest to give a try to another perl installation that supposedly will handle '-s' option correctly. I have strawberry perl installed and I added this =c:/strawberry/perl /perl= into my =/etc/fstab=

<verbatim>Index: apps/lang/lang.make
===================================================================
--- apps/lang/lang.make	(revision 29245)
+++ apps/lang/lang.make	(working copy)
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
 
 $(BUILDDIR)/lang/lang_core.o: $(APPSDIR)/lang/$(LANGUAGE).lang $(BUILDDIR)/apps/features
 	$(SILENT)for f in `cat $(BUILDDIR)/apps/features`; do feat="$$feat:$$f" ; done; \
-		perl -s $(TOOLSDIR)/genlang -p=$(BUILDDIR)/lang -t=$(MODELNAME)$$feat $<
+		/perl/bin/perl -s $(TOOLSDIR)/genlang -p=$(BUILDDIR)/lang -t=$(MODELNAME)$$feat $<
 	$(call PRINTS,CC lang_core.c)$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -c $(BUILDDIR)/lang/lang_core.c -o $@
 
 $(BUILDDIR)/lang/lang.h: $(BUILDDIR)/lang/lang_core.o
@@ -37,4 +37,4 @@
 $(BUILDDIR)/%.lng : $(ROOTDIR)/%.lang $(BUILDDIR)/apps/genlang-features
 	$(call PRINTS,GENLANG $(subst $(ROOTDIR)/,,$<))
 	$(SILENT)mkdir -p $(dir $@)
-	$(SILENT)$(TOOLSDIR)/genlang -e=$(APPSDIR)/lang/english.lang -t=$(MODELNAME):`cat $(BUILDDIR)/apps/genlang-features` -i=$(TARGET_ID) -b=$@ $<
+	$(SILENT)/perl/bin/perl -s $(TOOLSDIR)/genlang -e=$(APPSDIR)/lang/english.lang -t=$(MODELNAME):`cat $(BUILDDIR)/apps/genlang-features` -i=$(TARGET_ID) -b=$@ $<</verbatim>
---

Fix this artifact as well

<verbatim>
Index: apps/apps.make
===================================================================
--- apps/apps.make	(revision 29245)
+++ apps/apps.make	(working copy)
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 	$(call PRINTS,PP $(<F))
 	$(SILENT)$(CC) $(PPCFLAGS) \
                  -E -P -imacros "config.h" -imacros "button.h" -x c $< | \
-		grep -v "^\#" | grep -v "^ *$$" > $(BUILDDIR)/apps/features; \
+		grep -v "^\#" | grep -v "^ *$$" > $(BUILDDIR)/apps/features
 
 $(BUILDDIR)/apps/genlang-features:  $(BUILDDIR)/apps/features
 	$(call PRINTS,GEN $(subst $(BUILDDIR)/,,$@))tr \\n : < $< > $@</verbatim>
---

If you don't have svnversion script, create version.h file in your build directory with the following content
<verbatim>extern const char rbversion[];
#define RBVERSION "sim"</verbatim>
---

This will prevent $rbdir in buildzip.pl to become a =rockbox= without first dot
<verbatim>Index: buildzip.pl
===================================================================
--- buildzip.pl	(revision 29286)
+++ buildzip.pl	(working copy)
@@ -685,7 +685,7 @@
     $app = ($modelname eq "application");
     unless ($app) {
         #rbdir starts with '/', strip it
-        $rbdir = substr($rbdir, 1);
+#        $rbdir = substr($rbdir, 1);
     }
 
     # build a full install .rockbox ($rbdir) directory</verbatim>
---

For some reason few files are not generated automatically. Therefore here is the sequence I used
<verbatim>../tools/configure
make $PWD/lang/lang.h
make $PWD/bitmaps/rockboxlogo.h
make $PWD/sysfont.h
make $PWD/lang/max_language_size.h
make $PWD/credits.raw
make
make install</verbatim>

-- Main.MikhailTitov - 09 Feb 2011
r3 - 11 Feb 2011 - 22:23:01 - MikhailTitov?
Parents: UiSimulator