ERROR: SpiderMonkey build failed [using wsl on windows]

[PedroLopes951]

Hey everyone, 

I was following along the build instructions for linux, after I executed the shell script :

./update-workspaces.sh -j3 --with-system-nvtt 

all was building correctly but then I got this fatal error while compiling some the C code:

/mnt/c/Users/pedro/0ad/libraries/source/spidermonkey/mozjs-91.13.1/build-debug/dist/system_wrappers/string.h:3:15: fatal error: String.h: No such file or directory
    3 | #include_next <String.h>
      |               ^~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.

 After this error, the compilation still continued for while, compiling some rust files but in the end I got that the error saying that the SpiderMonkey Build failed.

I went to this file and I did found the <String.h> on the dir "C:\Users\pedro\0ad\libraries\source\spidermonkey\mozjs-91.13.1\third_party\rust\cexpr\tests\input\strings.h " 

Any ideas of what I can do to solve this?

 

 

[Stan`]

What version of GCC do you have ? What OS are you on? What Python Version do you have?

[hyperion]

28 minutes ago, PedroLopes951 said:

#include_next <String.h>

lowercase <string.h> is part of libc, the system_wrapper/string.h includes next the lowercase version ...

Your toolchain likes to capitalize, maybe switch to a case insensitive filesystem

 

[PedroLopes951]

@Stan`

gcc version :

I am using the windows subsystem for linux

Python Version :

[Stan`]

Oh wait you're using WSL2...

Compiling there has never been done before. And you are running into Windows being case insensitive.

Why don't you compile using MSVC on Windows ?

[PedroLopes951]

@Stan`

I like to use a Linux environment to program but I need to access some apps using windows for my job, so I decided to use wsl. 

But if there is little information on building with wsl, I can use the MSVC on Windows and start the process over again. 

Regarding the case insensitive, from what I know when working with Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) on Windows, the file system is case-insensitive by default.

[Stan`]

1 minute ago, PedroLopes951 said:

But if there is little information on building with wsl, I can use the MSVC on Windows and start the process over again. 

There is none currently but you can still try. Maybe using podman and an actual docker image would work. We have some to build on the CI.

2 minutes ago, PedroLopes951 said:

Regarding the case insensitive, from what I know when working with Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) on Windows, the file system is case-insensitive by default.

Yeah and that's the issue. String.h and string.h are two different files, but your OS think it's the same