Re: Wine source build on AIX/PowerPC failing

[Chip Davis]

Doesn't AIX use XCOFF instead of ELF?

August 17, 2021 9:32 AM, "Mahin Pandya"  wrote:
> Thanks André & Stefan. Tried using both repo but facing issue to build on AIX which is CPU type as
> POWERPC, got errors in "make" due to assembler "as" (which is native) in AIX, opcode is not
> recognized.
>
> bash-5.0$ tools/winebuild/winebuild -v -w --implib -o dlls/ucrtbase/libucrtbase.a --export
> dlls/ucrtbase/ucrtbase.spec dlls/ucrtbase/crt_gccmain.o dlls/ucrtbase/crt_main.o
> dlls/ucrtbase/crt_winmain.o dlls/ucrtbase/crt_wmain.o dlls/ucrtbase/crt_wwinmain.o
> dlls/ucrtbase/mathf.o dlls/ucrtbase/printf.o
> /usr/bin/as -o ucrtbase.I7tD9N.o dlls/ucrtbase/libucrtbase.WYBdSA.s
> Assembler:
> dlls/ucrtbase/libucrtbase.WYBdSA.s: line 1: 1252-016 The specified opcode or pseudo-op is not
> valid.
> Use supported instructions or pseudo-ops only.
> dlls/ucrtbase/libucrtbase.WYBdSA.s: line 4: 1252-211 Invalid relocation type: function.
> ...
>
> So looks like it need change in utils.c (many more files) or may be GNU assembler helps.
>
> Content of " libucrtbase.WYBdSA.s":
> .text
> .align 2
> .type _Cbuild,@function
> .globl _Cbuild
> .hidden _Cbuild
> _Cbuild:
> .long __wine$func$ucrtbase$1$_Cbuild
> .size _Cbuild, .-_Cbuild
> .section .note.GNU-stack,"",@progbits
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: André Zwing  
> Sent: Monday, August 16, 2021 6:04 PM
> To: Stefan Dösinger ; Mahin Pandya 
> Cc: Michael Stefaniuc ; [e-mail]
> Subject: Re: Wine source build on AIX/PowerPC failing
>
> Am 14.08.21 um 11:59 schrieb Stefan Dösinger:
> > > Am 13.08.2021 um 20:06 schrieb Mahin Pandya :
> > >
> > > Thanks Michael for quick response.
> > >
> > > Hello Andre, Is this https://github.com/AndreRH/wine your repo ? This gives me something to play
> > > around.
> >
> > I am not André, but yes, that is his git repo. The hangover branch contains a squashed commit for
> > ppc64le support, but it is built on a slightly dated Wine tree. Rebasing this is not trivial.
> >
> > Note that the hangover branch contains other stuff too (see https://github.com/AndreRH/hangover )
> > that may or may not be of interest for you
>
> Hello,
>
> Let's leave Hangover aside and just try to build this tag:
> https://github.com/AndreRH/wine/releases/tag/ppc64le-6.10

Chip