[webkit-dev] Building Webkit with cygwin failed

[Paul Pedriana]

You say you are trying to build WebKit using Cygwin, but you don't 
really mean the GCC within Cygwin, do you? The compiler arguments below 
are for VC++.

As you can see, the compiler error is:
    Linking...
    link: missing operand after `ÿþ/'
    Try `link --help' for more information.
    Project : error PRJ0002 : Error result 1 returned from
    'C:\cygwin\bin\link.exe'.

It looks like cygwin link is executing instead of VC++ link. This can be 
due to a few reasons, most significantly that the cygwin directory is 
ahead of the VC++ directory in the path list and the project is set to 
call link.exe unqualified.

Paul



> Hi all,
> I'm trying to build webkit on windows XP using cygwin.
> I used Visual studio 2005 and also installed service
> pack(VS80sp1-KB926601-X86-ENU.exe), and I was build in debug mode.
> I followed the instruction on the webkit homepage but when i build i keep 
> getting this error when building webkit:
>
> Please help me.
>
> here is the FindSafari's build log:
>
> Build Log
> Build started: Project: FindSafari, Configuration: Release|Win32
>
> Command Lines      
> Build machine environment variables may not be correct.
> Build machine environment variables may not be correct.
> Creating temporary file
> "C:\cygwin\home\teng\WebKit\WebKitBuild\obj\FindSafari\Release\RSP00000937282920.rsp"
> with contents
> [
> /O2 /D "NDEBUG" /D "WIN32" /D "_WINDOWS" /D "_WIN32_WINNT=0x500" /D
> "_CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE" /D "_SCL_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE" /D
> "__PRODUCTION__=0" /D "_HAS_EXCEPTIONS=0" /D "_UNICODE" /D "UNICODE" /FD /MD
> /GR- /Fo"C:\cygwin\home\teng\WebKit\WebKitBuild\obj\FindSafari\Release\\"
> /Fd"C:\cygwin\home\teng\WebKit\WebKitBuild\obj\FindSafari\Release\vc80.pdb"
> /W4 /WX /c /Zi /TP /wd4018 /wd4068 /wd4099 /wd4100 /wd4127 /wd4138 /wd4189
> /wd4244 /wd4275 /wd4291 /wd4344 /wd4355 /wd4389 /wd4503 /wd4510 /wd4512
> /wd4610 /wd4706 /wd4800 /wd4951 /wd4952 /wd4996 /wd6011 /wd6031 /wd6211
> /wd6246 /wd6255 /wd6387   /GS
>
> .\FindSafari.cpp
> ]
> Creating command line "cl.exe
> @C:\cygwin\home\teng\WebKit\WebKitBuild\obj\FindSafari\Release\RSP00000937282920.rsp
> /nologo /errorReport:queue"
> Creating temporary file
> "C:\cygwin\home\teng\WebKit\WebKitBuild\obj\FindSafari\Release\BAT00000A37282920.bat"
> with contents
> [
> @echo off
>
> if not exist "C:\cygwin\home\teng\WebKit\WebKitBuild\public\sym" mkdir
> "C:\cygwin\home\teng\WebKit\WebKitBuild\public\sym"
>
> if errorlevel 1 goto VCReportError
>
> goto VCEnd
>
> :VCReportError
>
> echo Project : error PRJ0019: A tool returned an error code from "Performing
> Pre-Link Event..."
>
> exit 1
>
> :VCEnd
> ]
> Creating command line
> "C:\cygwin\home\teng\WebKit\WebKitBuild\obj\FindSafari\Release\BAT00000A37282920.bat"
> Creating temporary file
> "C:\cygwin\home\teng\WebKit\WebKitBuild\obj\FindSafari\Release\RSP00000B37282920.rsp"
> with contents
> [
> /OUT:"C:\cygwin\home\teng\WebKit\WebKitBuild\bin\FindSafari.exe"
> /INCREMENTAL:NO /LIBPATH:"C:\cygwin\home\teng\WebKit\WebKitBuild\lib"
> /LIBPATH:"C:\cygwin\home\teng\WebKit\WebKitLibraries\win\lib" /MANIFEST
> /MANIFESTFILE:"C:\cygwin\home\teng\WebKit\WebKitBuild\obj\FindSafari\Release\FindSafari.exe.intermediate.manifest"
> /DEBUG /PDB:"c:\cygwin\home\teng\webkit\webkitbuild\bin\FindSafari.pdb"
> /PDBSTRIPPED:"C:\cygwin\home\teng\WebKit\WebKitBuild\public\sym\FindSafari.pdb"
> /SUBSYSTEM:CONSOLE /OPT:REF /OPT:ICF /OPT:NOWIN98
> /IMPLIB:"C:\cygwin\home\teng\WebKit\WebKitBuild\lib\FindSafari.lib"
> /MACHINE:X86  /SAFESEH /FIXED:NO /dynamicbase shlwapi.lib advapi32.lib
> ole32.lib kernel32.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib winspool.lib comdlg32.lib
> advapi32.lib shell32.lib ole32.lib oleaut32.lib uuid.lib odbc32.lib
> odbccp32.lib
>
> "..\..\webkitbuild\obj\findsafari\release\FindSafari.obj"
> ]
> Creating command line "link.exe
> @C:\cygwin\home\teng\WebKit\WebKitBuild\obj\FindSafari\Release\RSP00000B37282920.rsp
> /NOLOGO /ERRORREPORT:QUEUE"
>  
> Output Window      
> Compiling...
> FindSafari.cpp
> Performing Pre-Link Event...
> Linking...
> link: missing operand after `ÿþ/'
> Try `link --help' for more information.
> Project : error PRJ0002 : Error result 1 returned from
> 'C:\cygwin\bin\link.exe'.
> Project : warning PRJ0018 : The following environment variables were not
> found:
> $(PRODUCTION)
>
>  Results      
> Build log was saved at
> "file://C:\cygwin\home\teng\WebKit\WebKitBuild\obj\FindSafari\Release\BuildLog.htm"
> FindSafari - 1 error(s), 0 warning(s)
>  
>