I am trying to follow this tutorial on how to build 64-bit libraries on Windows using MSYS 64-bit. I am stuck on building libiconv. I followed the tutorial closely - the problem is the "./configure" step.
The step fails with :
configure: error: cannot guess build type; you must specify one
More specific, here is the full output:
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /usr/bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... no
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... (cached) no
checking for gcc... D:\Development\SFMLearn\x86_64-4.9.2-release-posix-seh-rt_v4-rev2\mingw64\bin\gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.exe
checking for suffix of executables... .exe
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether D:\Development\SFMLearn\x86_64-4.9.2-release-posix-seh-rt_v4-rev2\mingw64\bin\gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for D:\Development\SFMLearn\x86_64-4.9.2-release-posix-seh-rt_v4-rev2\mingw64\bin\gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking for style of include used by make... none
checking dependency style of D:\Development\SFMLearn\x86_64-4.9.2-release-posix-seh-rt_v4-rev2\mingw64\bin\gcc... none
checking how to run the C preprocessor... D:\Development\SFMLearn\x86_64-4.9.2-release-posix-seh-rt_v4-rev2\mingw64\bin\gcc -E
checking for strip... /mingw/bin/strip
checking build system type... build-aux/config.guess: unable to guess system type
This script, last modified 2009-02-03, has failed to recognize
the operating system you are using. It is advised that you
download the most up to date version of the config scripts from
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=config.git;a=blob_plain;f=config.guess;hb=HEAD
and
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=config.git;a=blob_plain;f=config.sub;hb=HEAD
If the version you run (build-aux/config.guess) is already up to date, please
send the following data and any information you think might be
pertinent to <config-patches@gnu.org> in order to provide the needed
information to handle your system.
config.guess timestamp = 2009-02-03
uname -m = x86_64
uname -r = 2.4.1(0.294/5/3)
uname -s = MSYS_NT-10.0
uname -v = 2016-02-03 10:57
/usr/bin/uname -p = unknown
/bin/uname -X =
hostinfo =
/bin/universe =
/usr/bin/arch -k =
/bin/arch = x86_64
/usr/bin/oslevel =
/usr/convex/getsysinfo =
UNAME_MACHINE = x86_64
UNAME_RELEASE = 2.4.1(0.294/5/3)
UNAME_SYSTEM = MSYS_NT-10.0
UNAME_VERSION = 2016-02-03 10:57
configure: error: cannot guess build type; you must specify one
It told me to download config.guess and config.sub from the provided URL (since my version of the script is apparently from 2009), however, I have no idea where to put this script.
This answer suggests to exchange %MSYS_ROOT%/usr/share/automake.1.11.1/config.guess, however automake isn't even installed! There is no folder "automake" in /usr/share.
Felix@felix MSYS /usr/share
$ ls
aclocal doc info magic misc pki zoneinfo
awk emacs libalpm makepkg Msys readline zsh
bash-completion file licenses makepkg-template p11-kit tabset
cygwin gnupg locale man pacman terminfo
I do not know how to install automake on MSYS 64-bit, Google doesn't help either. I have downloaded "automake-1.11.1-1-msys-1.0.13-bin" and config.guess and config.sub, but I don't know where to put them.
Any help is appreciated.
