Ubuntu Jammy(22.04) and Debian 11 fail to build zcash for Windows

[mdr0id]

Testing cross compile targets for the new Ubuntu 22.04, it was notice that zcash doesn't compile as expected using:
HOST=x86_64-w64-mingw32 ./zcutil/build.sh -j16

Error:

configure:4346: clang -target x86_64-w64-mingw32 -B/home/zcash/depends/x86_64-w64-mingw32/native/bin -pipe -O3 -I/home/zcash/depends/x86_64-w64-mingw32/include -D_WIN32_WINNT=0x0601  -fuse-ld=lld  -L/home/zcash/depends/x86_64-w64-mingw32/lib conftest.c  >&5
lld: error: unable to find library -lgcc
lld: error: unable to find library -lgcc_eh
lld: error: unable to find library -lgcc
lld: error: unable to find library -lgcc_eh
clang-14: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)
configure:4350: $? = 1
configure:4390: result: no
configure: failed program was:
| /* confdefs.h */
| #define PACKAGE_NAME "libevent"
| #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "libevent"
| #define PACKAGE_VERSION "2.1.12-stable"
| #define PACKAGE_STRING "libevent 2.1.12-stable"
| #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT ""
| #define PACKAGE_URL ""
| #define PACKAGE "libevent"
| #define VERSION "2.1.12-stable"
| #define NUMERIC_VERSION 0x02010c00
| /* end confdefs.h.  */
| 
| int
| main (void)
| {
| 
|   ;
|   return 0;
| }
configure:4395: error: in `/home/zcash/depends/work/build/x86_64-w64-mingw32/libevent/2.1.12-e18ca86a2d5':
configure:4397: error: C compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details

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## confdefs.h. ##
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/* confdefs.h */
#define PACKAGE_NAME "libevent"
#define PACKAGE_TARNAME "libevent"
#define PACKAGE_VERSION "2.1.12-stable"
#define PACKAGE_STRING "libevent 2.1.12-stable"
#define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT ""
#define PACKAGE_URL ""
#define PACKAGE "libevent"
#define VERSION "2.1.12-stable"
#define NUMERIC_VERSION 0x02010c00

configure: exit 77

[daira]

This is due to clang not finding the libgcc compiler runtime library and libgcc_eh unwind library. (It is correct that these libs have "gcc" in the name even though we're using clang; see here for context.)

On my Debian 11 system (with MinGW x86-64 libs installed), adding -L/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/10-posix to the linker flags seemed to fix the failing compilation, which led me to believe this would work (but it does not):

HOST=x86_64-w64-mingw32 LDFLAGS=-L/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/10-posix zcutil/build.sh -j$(nproc)

[wbaby]

same problem

[wbaby]

This is due to clang not finding the libgcc compiler runtime library and libgcc_eh unwind library. (It is correct that these libs have "gcc" in the name even though we're using clang; see here for context.)

On my Debian 11 system (with MinGW x86-64 libs installed), adding -L/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/10-posix to the linker flags seemed to fix the failing compilation, which led me to believe this would work (but it does not):

HOST=x86_64-w64-mingw32 LDFLAGS=-L/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/10-posix zcutil/build.sh -j$(nproc)

any other solution?

[miodragpop]

I've been able to cross build successfully on Ubuntu 22.04 by tweaking depends/hosts/mingw32.mk

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ mingw32_CFLAGS=-pipe
 mingw32_CXXFLAGS=$(mingw32_CFLAGS) -isystem $(host_prefix)/include/c++/v1
 
 mingw32_LDFLAGS?=-fuse-ld=lld
+mingw32_LDFLAGS+=-L/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/$(shell x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc -dumpversion)
 
 mingw32_release_CFLAGS=-O3
 mingw32_release_CXXFLAGS=$(mingw32_release_CFLAGS)

Not sure if this is worth of creating a pull request, but you can try adding that one line manually. Use usual HOST=x86_64-w64-mingw32 zcutil/build.sh -j$(nproc) to build. Good luck!

[miodragpop]

@mdr0id The tweak described above works for Debian 11 as well, tested on electriccoinco/zcashd-build-debian11v2:latest docker image