Can't make bebbo's amiga-gcc work
 

i really need help here guys i have been trying to make this amiga-gcc by bebbo thing work and when i try to compile some code it says:
i am running windows 10, i downloaded the "Precompiled suite with installer" for windows with msys2 and i am stumped. why is it looking for sh? this isnt linux.

any help appreciated :sad:sad:sad

Msys2 comes with Bash so 'sh' should just use that. You might need to check the path.

You have to open the command line via the provided `cmdline.bat`.
Or you have to provide a proper configuration by yourself.


It uses msys2, which is linux for windows and that uses sh.

thanks for replying bebbo! I have msys2 installed
actually to make sure i went and installed it again a newer version i hope.
i opened cmdline.bat and cd to the folder where my code is and i still get the same error
what to do now? :(

Did you install the toolchain in the default location? If not, try doing that (a path with spaces could causes issues).

In cmdline.bat try changing line 3 from
to
Just tried the default installation and it worked for me (on Windows 11), the above is just random guesses based on previous experience with msys based stuff.

I never use that msys crap, only gnu make for windows & Bebbo's as / gcc and it works fine.

i installed the toolchain in the default c:/amiga-gcc
i did this and no change still same error :( i even added c:/msys64/usr/bin to PATH now

1. Does e.g. m68k-amigaos-gcc.exe work on its own if you cd into c:/amiga-gcc/bin ?
2. Does sh.exe?
3. How about make.exe
4. What about a simpler Makefile that you create from scratch?
5. Check if the Makefile contains windows line endings (perhaps only some lines)
6. If all that fails, try attaching the Makefile

cputest (WinUAE cpu tester) uses Bebbo's gcc toolchain but no shells or crap. Try building that, I could build it with only "make" command installed, no crap msys or sh (sources from WinUAE github in "cputest")

1. amiga-gcc successfully compiles hello.c when i launch cmdline.bat so i am assuming its working
2. sh.exe works on its own when invoked from the command line
3. make when invoked on its own in any random dir says "sh: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop."
4. i dont know how to make a makefile :(
5. they are all cr/lf
6. there is a line there that says
but no matter what i change this to, it still doesn't work, still tries to use sh

I tried this, still getting similar errors:

The package setup-amiga-gcc.exe is intended to be used in Windows without installing MSYS2. It should also work having MSYS2.

I remember there was a problem with make and shell. That's why the cmdline.bat creates a wrapper for make.exe. The real make.exe was renamed to _make.exe. The new make.exe invokes _make.exe with setting SHELL=c:\amiga-gcc\bin\sh.exe

If you are using MSYS2 then you have to verify which make.exe is used. Also some of the DLLs may be duplicates or even worse: differ a bit.

Invoke a real make.exe - not the wrapper and maybe you have to provide the variable SHELL=....

You should remove all files in amiga-gcc/bin which are dups of files in MSYS2


Nowaday you shouldn't use MSYS2, you should use WSL2, which is soooooooooooooooooooooo much faster.

use the proper make.exe. then there is stuff to change from command line. more later (on my phonE right now)

i installed msys2 following some guide. i will uninstall it then.
as for the wsl i dont know if i have enough space in my drive to run a linux subsystem, will look into it

thanks all for your help so far

[edit] i uninstalled msys2 and i still get the same error trying to compile cputest

Ah, I can reproduce you issue with just:
This gives:
Adding "SHELL=sh" to the start of the makefile resolves it.

Not sure what's causing it, but I think you can work around it by using another version of "make" with the amiga-gcc distribution (needs to be earlier in the path obviously). I'm using the one from https://nuwen.net/mingw.html (for the gcc part) but YMMV.

I went ahead with your advice so now i have un installed msys2 and I have a Debian install on Windows, but no idea how to proceed
what should I do? i am still getting the error

anyone can help at this point? bebbo? :sad

the version of "make" is at fault

you need the one which isn't built for MSYS. I've zoned it

i figured out how to make wsl2 work and now i can compile cputest ! i didnt realize i should follow instructions to make it work like if it was Linux because it is Linux :p