Can't make bebbo's amiga-gcc work

[Bren McGuire]

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:

sh: /bin/sh: No such file or directory
sh: *** [Makefile:97: clean] Error 127

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

[Samurai_Crow]

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

[bebbo]

Originally Posted by Bren McGuire

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:

sh: /bin/sh: No such file or directory
sh: *** [Makefile:97: clean] Error 127

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

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.

[Bren McGuire]

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?

Originally Posted by bebbo

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.

[paraj]

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

path %path%;%prefix%\bin\

to

path %prefix%\bin\;%path%

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.

[jotd]

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

[Bren McGuire]

i installed the toolchain in the default c:/amiga-gcc

Originally Posted by paraj

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

i did this and no change still same error i even added c:/msys64/usr/bin to PATH now

In cmdline.bat try changing line 3 from

path %path%;%prefix%\bin\

to

path %prefix%\bin\;%path%

[paraj]

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

[jotd]

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")

[Bren McGuire]

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

# The shell in which to execute make rules.
SHELL = /bin/sh

but no matter what i change this to, it still doesn't work, still tries to use sh

Originally Posted by paraj

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

[Bren McGuire]

I tried this, still getting similar errors:

C:\amiga-gcc\cputest>make
sh: /bin/sh: No such file or directory
sh: /bin/sh: No such file or directory
/opt/amiga/bin/m68k-amigaos-gcc -mcrt=nix13 -O2 -m68000 -fomit-frame-pointer -msoft-float -DREVDATE="\"\"" -DREVTIME="\"\"" -DAMIGA -DM68K -I. -c -o main.o main.c
sh: /bin/sh: No such file or directory
sh: *** [makefile:20: main.o] Error 127

Originally Posted by jotd

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")

[bebbo]

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.

[jotd]

Originally Posted by Bren McGuire

I tried this, still getting similar errors:

C:\amiga-gcc\cputest>make
sh: /bin/sh: No such file or directory
sh: /bin/sh: No such file or directory
/opt/amiga/bin/m68k-amigaos-gcc -mcrt=nix13 -O2 -m68000 -fomit-frame-pointer -msoft-float -DREVDATE="\"\"" -DREVTIME="\"\"" -DAMIGA -DM68K -I. -c -o main.o main.c
sh: /bin/sh: No such file or directory
sh: *** [makefile:20: main.o] Error 127

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

[Bren McGuire]

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

[paraj]

Ah, I can reproduce you issue with just:

.PHONY: test
test:
        echo Hello!

This gives:

echo Hello!
sh: /bin/sh: No such file or directory
sh: *** [Makefile:3: test] Error 127

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.

[Bren McGuire]

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

Originally Posted by bebbo

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

[Bren McGuire]

anyone can help at this point? bebbo?

[jotd]

the version of "make" is at fault

K:\jff\AmigaHD\PROJETS\arcade_remakes\pengo\src>c:\amiga-gcc\bin\make.exe -v
GNU Make 4.4
Built for x86_64-pc-msys
Copyright (C) 1988-2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

K:\jff\AmigaHD\PROJETS\arcade_remakes\pengo\src>make -v
GNU Make 3.82
Built for i686-pc-mingw32
Copyright (C) 2010  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

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

[Bren McGuire]

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