[yocto] meta-mingw: unable to run executables on Windows

[Khem Raj]

Ok, thanks.
On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 6:48 AM Mark Hatle <mark.hatle at windriver.com> wrote:
>
> On 11/14/18 11:01 PM, Khem Raj wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 8:08 PM Joshua Watt <jpewhacker at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 8:41 PM Mark Hatle <mark.hatle at windriver.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On 11/14/18 9:54 AM, Mark Hatle wrote:
> >>>> On 11/13/18 3:56 AM, Samuli Piippo wrote:
> >>>>> Hi,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I've just upgraded poky and meta-mingw layers from sumo to thud and as a result
> >>>>> a lot of the executables in the toolchain no longer run correctly on Windows.
> >>>>
> >>>> Which version of windows?
> >>>>
> >>>>> I've built meta-toolchain for SDKMACHINE=x86_64-mingw32. From that, gcc/g++ work
> >>>>> fine on Windows 10, but ar, as, objdumb, and others hang for ~30 seconds and
> >>>>> exit without any output.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Has anyone else seen this?
> >>>>
> >>>> I've run a toolchain made on mingw after sumo, but before thud's release.  I'll
> >>>> see if I can find a VM and give it a try later today.
> >>>
> >>> I'm running on Windows 7 for my testing (ya, I know old.. but it's what I got.)
> >>>
> >>> Can you try adding the following to your conf/local.conf: GCCPIE_mingw32 = ""
> >
> > this will be effective just for SDK and native versions I hope, but in
> > cases if we
> > have this override also applicable for target then this fix is not
> > correct. We have
> > to keep using it for target builds.
>
> The mingw32 override is only present when building -nativesdk- mingw32 software.
>  -Not- cross candian and similar.
>
> --Mark
>
> >>>
> >>> I found that the SDK was not working properly here as well, but only binutils.
> >>> The above seems to fix the issue.  (You do have to rebuild your SDK.)
> >>
> >> I also saw this issue on Windows 7, and your described fix corrected
> >> it (Thanks!). On the plus side, the automated SDK testing that I'm
> >> working on discovered it as well (e.g. the tests failed because of
> >> it), which means that the tests are working and should help prevent
> >> issues like this in the future once I get it merged.
> >>
> >>>
> >>>> --Mark
> >>>>
> >>>
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