Failed to compile "stream" module into binary.

[IngwiePhoenix]

I was trying to find out how I could compile an all-static binary, but it doesnt load stream now...

Ingwie@Ingwies-Macbook-Pro.local ~/W/G/d/out $ gcc ../kernel/*.c -o dao -DBSD -DUNIX -DMACOSX -DPLAT=\"macosx\" -DDAO_WITH_THREAD -DDAO_WITH_CONCURRENT -DDAO_WITH_NUMARRAY -DDAO_USE_READLINE -DTRACING_ON -lreadline ../modules/stream/*.c ../modules/auxlib/*.c -I ../kernel/ -I ../modules/auxlib/ -DDAO_HAS_STREAM -DDEBUG
../modules/stream/dao_stream.c:675:9: warning: 'DAO_HAS_STREAM' macro redefined [-Wmacro-redefined]
#define DAO_HAS_STREAM
        ^
<command line>:10:9: note: previous definition is here
#define DAO_HAS_STREAM 1
        ^
1 warning generated.
Ingwie@Ingwies-Macbook-Pro.local ~/W/G/d/out $ ./dao ../tools/filetools/archive.dao 
[[ERROR]] in file "/Users/Ingwie/Work/Git/dao/tools/filetools/archive.dao":
  At line 1 : Loading failed;

Any idea on how I could fix this? Thanks!

[IngwiePhoenix]

Well, I got to this point here now:

Ingwie@Ingwies-Macbook-Pro.local ~/W/G/d/out $ gcc ../kernel/*.c -o dao -DDAO_WITH_NUMARRAY -DDAO_WITH_THREAD -DDAO_WITH_CONCURRENT -DDAO_WITH_RESTART -DTARGET_PLAT=\"macosx\" -DBSD=2 -DMACOSX=3 -DUNIX=1 -DDAO_USE_READLINE -DTRACING_ON -lreadline ../modules/stream/*.c ../modules/auxlib/*.c -I ../kernel/ -I ../modules/auxlib/ -undefined dynamic_lookup -fPIC
Ingwie@Ingwies-Macbook-Pro.local ~/W/G/d/out $ ./dao ../tools/filetools/archive.dao 
dyld: Symbol not found: __DaoFileStream_Close
  Referenced from: /Users/Ingwie/Work/Git/dao/out/./dao
  Expected in: flat namespace
 in /Users/Ingwie/Work/Git/dao/out/./dao
fish: './dao ../tools/filetools/archiv…' terminated by signal SIGABRT (Abort)

From what I can tell, the usage of DAO_API(...) is causing troubble. This is a static compile, so the functions and signatures should pretty simply be defined "as normal" instead of being exported or anything. Would be nice to have that updated! :)

Edit

nm reports this:

Ingwie@Ingwies-Macbook-Pro.local ~/W/G/d/out $ nm dao | grep DaoFileStream_Close
00000001000ee390 T _DaoFileStream_Close
                 U __DaoFileStream_Close

Looks like the one being needed is "undefined". I am ... rather surprised.

[IngwiePhoenix]

Oh... Using -rdynamic helped some - didn't fix the issue, unfortunately...

gcc \
  -I ../kernel/ \
  -I ../modules/ \
  -I ../modules/stream/ \
  -I ../modules/auxlib/ \
  -I ../modules/debugger/ \
  -I ../modules/profiler/ \
  ../kernel/*.c \
  ../modules/stream/*.c \
  ../modules/debugger/*.c \
  ../modules/auxlib/*.c \
  ../modules/profiler/*.c \
  -DBSD \
  -DUNIX \
  -DMACOSX \
  -DPLAT=\"macosx\" \
  -DDAO_WITH_THREAD \
  -DDAO_WITH_CONCURRENT \
  -DDAO_WITH_NUMARRAY \
  -DDAO_USE_READLINE \
  -DTRACING_ON \
  -lreadline \
  -DDAO_HAS_STREAM \
  -DDEBUG \
  -o dao \
  -rdynamic

I'm... so confused on how to get this to work. :/

[dumblob]

@IngwiePhoenix sorry for not getting back to you earlier (I'm currently moving to another country and changing my job...). I'll get back to you later.

On the first sight I can tell, that the use of daomake is the only supported way of compiling Dao. Though it should be possible to instruct daomake to compile an all-static binary IIRC.

[IngwiePhoenix]

Ahh, well that's understandable. Good luck on that! =)

Being able to disassemble the build steps so I can port it to a different build system - which is more convenient to myself - would be very nice. That is why I have been trying to compile Dao straight off the commandline with no build tool in order to reproduce how to compile Dao - without Daomake.

Once you have the time, it'd be nice to hear from you how I could achieve this. Thank you in advance :)

[dumblob]

So, I finally found some time and thought a little bit about your effort.

First thing you shall probably know is, that Daomake is basically a standalone pure Dao interpreter but providing few built-in additional classes, objects, routines and constants useful for automated generation of system-specific, more or less POSIX-compliant Makefiles for the make on your system.

Daomake exists because it's super easy and extremely advantageous to leverage basically the biggest in the world mechanism for anything system-specific - which is the C compiler toolchain. This is then compiled on your platform in a form of Daomake which in turn is a super thin layer providing unified interface (used in all makefile.daos) and guaranteeing compatibility with your system at least on the same level as C compiler toolchain would guarantee. Therefore each makefile.dao is just a Dao script generating a Makefile for make.

In this light you could proceed like this.

1. use Daomake to prepare a dynamically linked build as usual (see e.g. Dao PKGBUILD)
2. Daomake generates a tree of Makefiles for your system with proper dependencies among them, settings and flags - use these Makefiles as templates for writing Premake(ex.)/cmake/... files
3. either make a pull request in the staging repo or write a summary here so that it can be put e.g. in the official Dao documentation or at least GitHub wiki