Re: Unable to use/compile libarchive 2.4.12-1

Van: Oliver Fladda <[email protected]>
Datum: vrijdag 29 augustus 2008 11:52 vm

> I downloaded libarchive 2.4.12-1 and tried the simple test program from 
> the archive_write.3 documentation.
> The program failed with a segment fault in function write_archive_header() 
> in archive_write.c:319.
> As libarchive-2.5.5 does not contain the call to function strcmp() at that 
> line, I tried to build 2.5.5 directly, but was unable to
> do so.
> After that, I tried to patch and compile libarchive 2.4.12-1.
> But during make, gcc fails on libarchive/archive_write_set_format.c:44 
> with error "initializer element is not constant",
> even with unpatched sources.
> I tried to compile with the gcc switch "-std=c89" to circumvent this 
> error, but that did not work either.
> All tries were realized with MinGW 5.1.4, gcc Version: gcc (GCC) 3.4.2 
> (mingw-special) and GNU Make 3.81.
> Any help on this issue is most appreciated.

Could you post a small program, preferably the smallest one possible, that 
fails in this way? And also give the exact compilation and linking commands 
that you used.

As to compiling libarchive-2.5.5, it seems impossible to compile it, even 
after extensive patching of the MS-Windows specific header files. 
Libarchive-2.4.12-1 should compile as it is, i.e. unpack 
libarchive-2.4.12-1-src.zip, and at a Cygwin bash prompt in the directory 
libarchive-2.4.12, type: "./config.status" (in order to recreate the .deps 
subdirectories) and then: "make"; see also 
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/compile.html

Kees Zeelenberg 


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