building Perl module DBD-ODBC-4.3 under 64-bit cygwin
Corinna Vinschen
corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Thu Aug 1 15:16:00 GMT 2013
On Aug 1 16:02, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Aug 1 12:57, Simon Barnes wrote:
> > I'm having difficulty with this and would appreciate any suggestions. It does build under 32-bit cygwin.
>
> That's a good place to point to my extended "how to port to 64 bit" FAQ,
> starting here:
>
> http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#faq.programming.64bitporting
>
> Please read this first.
>
> Basically, what you see here...
>
> > /usr/local/include/sqltypes.h:261:33: error: conflicting types for 'ULONG'
> > typedef unsigned long ULONG;
> > ^
> > In file included from /usr/include/w32api/windows.h:69:0,
> > from dbdodbc.h:6,
> > from ODBC.h:8,
> > from ODBC.xs:1:
> > /usr/include/w32api/windef.h:25:27: note: previous declaration of 'ULONG' was here
> > typedef unsigned __LONG32 ULONG;
> > ^
> > Makefile:390: recipe for target `ODBC.o' failed
>
> ...is a typical type conflict. ULONG is a Windows type defined as
> unsigned long in the Win32 API. The Win32 data model is LLP64, so
> unsigned long is 4 bytes. However, Cygwin is LP64, so unsigned long is
> 8 bytes. Therefore the `typedef unsigned long ULONG;' is wrong for 64
> bit. Either drop the definition entirely, or redefine it matching the
> data model:
>
> #ifdef __LP64__
> typedef unsigned int ULONG;
> #else
> typedef unsigned long ULONG;
> #endif
Btw., that's what the __LONG32 macro in the mingw-w64 headers is for...
Corinna
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