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[cellml-dev] Compiling the API and OpenCell on Windows


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  • From: r.britten at auckland.ac.nz (Randall Britten)
  • Subject: [cellml-dev] Compiling the API and OpenCell on Windows
  • Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 14:32:06 +1300
Hi Lucian

Andrew is quite busy with his PhD at the moment, so I think you will only
get a comprehensive reply from Andrew in a day or perhaps a few days, but I
had a brief mail discussion with him, and he suggested a few alternatives
that you could try:

1) Use the setup tool he created for setting up a windows environment for
building the CellML-API:
http://cellml-api.hg.sourceforge.net/hgweb/cellml-api/win32-build-setup/.
Note that it is still a bit rough, and requires more testing, so if you do
try this, be prepared for retrying a few times, probably preferable if you
have pristine VM images on stand-by. If you do, it will help us finish it
off, which will make life easier for developers in future.

2) If you want to avoid using MSVC, and only use cygwin, then you will have
to build xul-runner on cygwin from source, since Windows xul-runner binaries
distributed by Mozilla are usually built using MSVC.

3) Change your app to use the new "TeLICeMS" (available in "head revision"
of source code repo), which will remove the xul-runner dependency. The work
on xul-runner support was part of the OpenCell project, but our group is no
longer working on the OpenCell project, and the new OpenCell project is not
based on xul-runner. So this is probably the best long term option, since
it means improves maintainability of the CellML support in your application
over the next few years. A pain in the short term though.

TI's relevant to TeLICeMS:
https://tracker.physiomeproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1356
and
https://tracker.physiomeproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2777


Regards,
Randall



> -----Original Message-----
> From: cellml-tools-developers-bounces at cellml.org [mailto:cellml-tools-
> developers-bounces at cellml.org] On Behalf Of Lucian Smith
> Sent: Thursday, 18 November 2010 1:33 p.m.
> To: A list for the developers of CellML tools
> Subject: [cellml-dev] Compiling the API and OpenCell on Windows
>
> So I really really tried to follow the Windows build instructions,
> despite
> the fact that they are ridiculously arcane, and that they are designed to
> install in c:/, of all places. I made a cellml-specific version of
> Cygwin
> (since the instructions morph the install into something completely
> unuseable by anybody else), and at first I tried to see if I could get it
> to work with the most recent versions of automake, etc, since really,
> what
> the heck. It took forever, and in the end I was not able to get
> build/msvc-wrapper to run at all.
>
> So, I thought to myself, "Well, maybe it really does need the ancient
> automakes, etc." so I went through and crippled it, and in the end, I
> typed 'aclocal' and it said, "wtf I can't use these ancient versions of
> automake!" so I gave up. I figured it was only a matter of time until
> some other dependency incompatibility was discovered.
>
> So I took a different tack: I tried compiling an honest-to-goodness
> Cygwin compile, instead of the weird cygwin/visual studio hybrid
> described
> in the instructions. My own software compiles on Cygwin, so I figured
> since the CellML API was really developed for unix anyway, I could
> probably get that to work more straightforwardly.
>
> It configured OK (with some warnings I'll talk about in a second) but ran
> into troubles with xulrunner. I get the error:
>
> $ make
> mkdir -p ./simple_interface_generators/glue/xpcom
> /home/Lucian/CellML/hg/cellml-api/./build/cygwin-wrapper
> /home/Lucian/xulrunner-sdk/bin/xpidl -m header -I/home/Lucian/xulrunner-
> sdk/idl -e simple_interface_generators/glue/xpcom/IWrappedPCM.h
> simple_interface_generators/glue/xpcom/IWrappedPCM.idl
> .\simple_interface_generators/glue/xpcom/IWrappedPCM.idl:2: can't open
> included file nsISupports.idl for reading
>
> This despite the fact that /home/Lucian/xulrunner-sdk/idl/nsISupports.idl
> exists. So I'm not sure what's going on here.
>
> Then I tried configuring it without xulrunner, and had much better luck.
> There were the ominous warnings from 'configure':
>
> checking libxml/tree.h usability... yes
> checking libxml/tree.h presence... no
> configure: WARNING: libxml/tree.h: accepted by the compiler, rejected by
> the preprocessor!
> configure: WARNING: libxml/tree.h: proceeding with the compiler's result
> checking for libxml/tree.h... yes
>
> and
>
> checking dlfcn.h usability... yes
> checking dlfcn.h presence... no
> configure: WARNING: dlfcn.h: accepted by the compiler, rejected by the
> preprocessor!
> configure: WARNING: dlfcn.h: proceeding with the compiler's result
> checking for dlfcn.h... yes
>
> And indeed, it compiled a few things until it tried to include
> libxml/tree.h and couldn't find it. I was able to fix this by editing
> the
> makefile from
>
> LIBXML_CFLAGS =
>
> to:
>
> LIBXML_CFLAGS = -I/usr/include/libxml2
>
> The problem here was that the '-I' bit was mistakenly placed in:
>
> CFLAGS = -I/usr/include/libxml2 -O2 -ffast-math
>
> which wasn't being used in that place.
>
> Then it complained about a nonexistent library 'stlport.5.0'. This I
> fixed by changing
>
> STLLINK = -lstlport.5.0 -no-undefined
>
> to
>
> STLLINK = -lstdc++ -no-undefined
>
> At that point, the whole thing actually compiled! But still without
> xulrunner. And with the slightly ominous warnings all over the place:
>
> libtool: link: warning: `/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-
> cygwin/4.3.4/../../../libxml2.la' seems to be moved
>
> despite the fact that it was right there (/us/lib/libxml2.la)
>
> However! I did a 'make install' into a test directory, and after I
> copied
> in some cygwin dlls, the test exe's actually ran! I about fell over.
>
> So at this point, all I need is a way to get the xulrunner-sdk to work
> under cygwin for your build process. Any ideas? Thanks!
>
> -Lucian
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