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0000296fileGeneralpublic2021-10-28 16:39
Reportereliz Assigned Tochristos  
PrioritynormalSeveritymajorReproducibilityalways
Status assignedResolutionopen 
PlatformMinGWOSMS-WindowsOS VersionXPSP3
Product Version5.40 
Summary0000296: Problems building file-5.41 with MinGW on MS-Windows
DescriptionI've built the latest version 5.41 of file natively on MS-Windows using MinGW tools. (Yes, version 5.41; the bug tracker doesn't allow to select that version when reporting an issue.)

I've found several problems while building, described below. Let me know if you want me to attach proposed patches for any of those.

First, there are multiple compilation warnings due to C99 formatted output features, like the '#' flag and the %z or %j descriptors. (file.h has portability macros for taking care of that, but they are not used everywhere, and don't cover the '#' flag, for example.)

Next, compress.c triggers several warnings because variables and functions used only if HAVE_FORK are declared or defined without that conditional, so they are unused in a build without HAVE_FORK.

The function 'sread' uses 'ioctl' for sockets and pipes, but that cannot compile on Windows, and won't work even if tweaked (e.g., 'select' doesn't work on Windows pipes). So this needs to be #ifdef'ed away. Same for calls to 'fcntl' in funcs.c.

In magic.c, I added support for the HOME environment variable on MS-Windows. While this variable is not normally set on Windows, many users of ported Unix software have it set, so it is useful to support that.

The function 'unreadable_info' in magic.c calls 'access' with X_OK, which doesn't work well, or not at all, on MS-Windows, so I replaced it with a simple test of the file's extension to detect executables based on that.

Thanks for developing this package.
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christos

2021-10-28 15:36

manager   ~0003657

Sure, please send patches.

eliz

2021-10-28 16:39

reporter   ~0003665

I attach patches for MinGW-related issues.
DIFFS.mingw (12,033 bytes)

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2021-10-24 10:21 eliz New Issue
2021-10-28 15:35 christos Assigned To => christos
2021-10-28 15:35 christos Status new => assigned
2021-10-28 15:36 christos Status assigned => feedback
2021-10-28 15:36 christos Note Added: 0003657
2021-10-28 16:39 eliz File Added: DIFFS.mingw
2021-10-28 16:39 eliz Note Added: 0003665
2021-10-28 16:39 eliz Status feedback => assigned