Can't build xmake on WSL using mingw (building for Windows)

[AndreHunf]

I've recently been trying to compile xmake for Windows using WSL along with mingw. According to the documentation, I'm following the command below to compile the source code:

xmake f -p mingw -a x86_64

When using the configuration above, I encounter the following warning message:

warning: add_cxflags("-Wno-error=nullability-completeness") is ignored, please pass `{force = true}` or call `set_policy("check.auto_ignore_flags", false)` if you want to set it.
warning: add -v for getting more warnings ..

However, at a given moment, when typing xmake to build the code, the compilation stops showing the following error:

error: src/tbox/tbox/src/tbox/platform/windows/file.c:446:109: error: ‘COPY_FILE_COPY_SYMLINK’ undeclared (first use in this function); did you mean ‘TB_FILE_COPY_LINK’?
  446 |         if (tb_kernel32()->CopyFileExW && tb_kernel32()->CopyFileExW(full0, full1, tb_null, tb_null, FALSE, COPY_FILE_COPY_SYMLINK))
      |                                                                                                             ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      |                                                                                                             TB_FILE_COPY_LINK
src/tbox/tbox/src/tbox/platform/windows/file.c:446:109: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
  > in src/tbox/tbox/src/tbox/platform/file.c
warning: add_cxflags("-Wno-error=nullability-completeness") is ignored, please pass `{force = true}` or call `set_policy("check.auto_ignore_flags", false)` if you want to set it.
warning: add -v for getting more warnings ..

I tried every possible configuration to get rid of this error, but with no success.

So the question is: what steps should I do to compile the xmake for Windows using WSL and mingw?

Thanks in advance.

[star-hengxing]

https://github.com/mingw-w64/mingw-w64/blob/cf5c50cce0b4f8610eafd95443d1d3767de386a5/mingw-w64-headers/include/winbase.h#L130

Maybe missing this code. You can open a issue

#if defined(__MINGW32__) || defined(__MINGW64__)
#   undef _WIN32_WINNT
#   define _WIN32_WINNT 0x0600
#endif

[AndreHunf]

I did everything as you instructed. I set the XMAKE_PROGRAM_DIR to the specified directory as pointed out and also set the XMAKE_PROGRAM_FILE to the path of the generated xmake.exe. I even edited the srcenv.bat switching the backslash to the forward slash thinking that could be the problem, but nothing worked.

I also downloaded and tried to run xmake-v2.9.6.win64 from the releases page with another machine and I got the same error as my compiled version.

At this point I could not trace where this error is coming from. I might open an issue relating this problem, if you prefer.

[waruqi]

C:\Users\Avell\Softwares\xmake\scripts..\xmake/core/_xmake_main.lua: No such file or directory

you can check this file path.

https://github.com/xmake-io/xmake/blob/dev/xmake/core/_xmake_main.lua

[AndreHunf]

Sorry but, if even the compiled version found in the releases page shows the same error I encounter, there must be a bug of some sort. I'll be back when a solution for this problem is found.

[waruqi]

C:\Users\Avell\Softwares\xmake\scripts..\xmake/core/_xmake_main.lua: No such file or directory

you can check this file path.

You didn't give me any feedback info, so I can't confirm what problem you encountered. Does the file path exist?

[AndreHunf]

Does the file path exist?

The path does exist and there is the _xmake_main.lua file, but somehow xmake cannot find this file/directory and I cannot trace from which step this error is comming from.

You didn't give me any feedback info, so I can't confirm what problem you encountered.

Is there any kind of information you are looking for? I'm willing to provide the necessary information to resolve this issue.

Below I will show the steps I took until I reached the current error:

1. Download xmake with git clone --recursive https://github.com/xmake-io/xmake.git;
2. Navigate to /core and configure xmake with xmake f -p mingw -a x86_64;
3. After configuration, build the source code with xmake command;
4. After finishing the compilation, bring all xmake folder from WSL to Windows;
5. On Windows, navigate to /scripts and execute srcenv.bat from cmd. Windows will open another cmd with the xmake root directory (with environment vars set);
6. Type xmake --version to check if everything is working right;
7. Cmd shows error: cannot open C:\Users\Avell\Softwares\xmake\scripts\..\xmake/core/_xmake_main.lua: No such file or directory

If you need more information, I am open to assist you.