Xmake's mingw experience needs to be improved on windows

[calebkiage]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Sometimes it's useful to use xmake with mingw on windows e.g. because of compiler static analysis, but it seems like some of xmake's assumptions don't play well with MinGW on windows. As an example, the extraction logic assumes that Windows can't have a working tar program which is not true if the user has a MinGW environment. Another example is the package.tools.autoconf doesn't seem to work. It fails with the error:

./configure --disable-samples --disable-tests --enable-shared --disable-static --with-data-packaging=dll --prefix=C:/Users/myuser/AppData/Local/.xmake/packages/i/icu4c/73.1/9700b014573e4b039db80987a96fbca5 --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32
error: @programdir\core\sandbox\modules\os.lua:374: cannot execv(./configure --disable-samples --disable-tests --enable-shared --disable-static --with-data-packaging=dll --prefix=C:/Users/myuser/AppData/Local/.xmake/packages/i/icu4c/73.1/9700b014573e4b039db80987a96fbca5 --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32), No such file or directory

Describe the solution you'd like

Since mingw works on all OSes, maybe the way to go here is to not assume that unix tools are unavailable in windows hosts.

Describe alternatives you've considered

I've worked around the extraction issue by using a windows shell with MinGW in the path environment and it extracts the tgz archive correctly. I've also worked around the autoconf tools issue by calling the scripts through env:

local env = assert(find_tool("env"), "env is not found. is MinGW in the PATH?").program
os.execv(env, {"sh", "./configure", ...})

Additional context

No response

[waruqi]

try pass {shell = true}, xmake will call sh/bash to run it automatically.

    os.vrunv("./configure", argv, {shell = true})

see

xmake/xmake/modules/package/tools/autoconf.lua

Line 443 in bdb28e5

os.vrunv("./configure", argv, {shell = true, envs = envs})

[calebkiage]

That didn't work. I still got the same error. I'm using msys ucrt64 environment

[waruqi]

what's your subhost? let me see your output of xmake l os.subhost.

or you can debug here

xmake/xmake/core/base/os.lua

Line 776 in bdb28e5

if subhost == "msys" or subhost == "cygwin" then

[calebkiage]

Subhost is windows. Host is also windows. Both in the msys shell and windows shell with mingw in the path. I'm on xmake 2.7.8 in mingw and 2.7.9 on windows.

[waruqi]

I have merged it. thanks.