windows compile error

[Daniel Atallah]

On 8/30/07, Joanna Chopard (jchopard) <jchopard at cisco.com> wrote:
> I followed the instructions on 'Pidgin for Windows Build Instructions' page.
> I get the following error for
> libpurple/plugins/perl/common/ and not sure what to do
> next.  I'm afraid I don't really know .xs file format.
>
> ===============================================================
> gcc.exe -shared Account.o AccountOpts.o BuddyIcon.o BuddyList.o Cipher.o
> Cmds.o
> Connection.o Conversation.o Core.o Debug.o FT.o Purple.o ImgStore.o Log.o
> Networ
> k.o Notify.o Plugin.o PluginPref.o Pounce.o Prefs.o Privacy.o Proxy.o Prpl.o
> Req
> uest.o Roomlist.o SSLConn.o SavedStatuses.o Signal.o Server.o Sound.o
> Status.o S
> tringref.o Util.o XMLNode.o
> -L../../../../../win32-dev/perl58 -L.. -L../../../..
> /libpurple -L../../../../../win32-dev/gtk_2_0/lib -lperl58
> -lperl -lpurple -lgli
> b-2.0 -o Purple.dll
> Purple.o: In function
> `boot_Purple':c:/dev/pidgin_dev/pidgin-2.1.1/libpurple/plu
> gins/perl/common/Purple.xs:43: undefined reference to `boot_Purple__Account'
> :c:/dev/pidgin_dev/pidgin-2.1.1/libpurple/plugins/perl/common/Purple.xs:44:
> unde
> fined reference to `boot_Purple__Account__Option'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make: *** [Purple.dll] Error 1
> ===============================================================

This is a weird issue that I've seen happen once or twice before.  For
some reason, the AccountOpts.c generation overwrites the previously
generated Account.c.  If you `make -f Makefile.mingw clean` in the
"purple/plugins/perl/common" directory and then `make -f
Makefile.mingw` in that directory again, it should work.

-D