Building Doxygen on MSYS2

Question

Currently I'm facing a problem, compiling Doxygen on MSYS2 using either MinGW32 or Mingw-w64 on Windows 10.

I did:

git clone https://github.com/doxygen/doxygen.git
cd doxygen && mkdir build && cd build
cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" ..
make

When using MinGW32 I get the following errors:

In file included from C:/msys64/home/dglaser/GIT/doxygen/src/layout.cpp:36:0: C:/msys64/home/dglaser/GIT/doxygen/build/generated_src/layout_default.xml.h:1:1: warning: missing terminating " character \n"doxygenlayout version=\"1.0\"> ^ [...]

When using Mingw-w64 (after deleting build and do above steps again), everything compiles fine and I get errors during linkage:

C:/msys64/mingw64/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/8.2.0/../../../../x86_64-w64-mingw32/bin/ld.exe: ../lib/libdoxymain.a(doxygen.cpp.obj):doxygen.cpp:(.text+0x36dd6): undefined reference to `QFileInfo::absFilePath() const' C:/msys64/mingw64/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/8.2.0/../../../../x86_64-w64-mingw32/bin/ld.exe: ../lib/libdoxymain.a(doxygen.cpp.obj):doxygen.cpp:(.text+0x36e84): undefined reference to `QFileInfo::isFile() const' [...]

How can one of those be solved?

Reinstalling msys2 did the job. After installing all dependent libraries, doxygen is now compiling nicely. If Iconv is not recognized after installation, delete the build folder and rerun cmake again. It worked with cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" .. — themole
– themole, Commented May 29, 2020 at 13:30

Brecht Sanders · Accepted Answer · 2020-05-29 12:36:44Z

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When using MSYS2 you should use:

cmake.exe -G"MSYS Makefiles"

When I build from the latest source tarball http://doxygen.nl/files/doxygen-1.8.18.src.tar.gz it works after I removed the line containing /bigobj from CMakeLists.txt.

answered May 29, 2020 at 12:36

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themole Over a year ago

Unfortunately, my cmake doesn't know about MSYS Makefiles:

themole Over a year ago

Thanks, but reinstalling msys2 did the trick."MSYS Makefiles" is still not available.

albert Over a year ago

@themole my windows 10 CMake does have the possibiliy for MSYS Makefiles, which version of cmake are you using? Is this the windows version (where cmake)?

Brecht Sanders Over a year ago

I was using the CMake version that I compiled myself. These days I also use -GNinja in MSYS2 as ninja is a lot faster than make.

Peter Mortensen · Accepted Answer · 2022-08-14 19:07:57Z

MSYS2 was somehow broken or outdated. Updating crashed the environment, so I deleted folder C:\msys64 and reinstalled it.

After installing all dependencies correctly (GCC, CMake, Make, Python, libiconv, Bison, and bisonc++), it compiled and executed correctly.

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