[lttng-dev] Status of MinGW support for babeltrace (either 1.x or 2.x)

[Philippe Proulx]

On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 1:09 PM, Jonah Graham <jonah at kichwacoders.com> wrote:
> Thank you both for the info. It looks like our timing is very good. I will
> have a look at the staging branch too.
>
> Our interest is in writing ctf files from our custom tools and then
> analysing the traces in tracecompass. We were trying to decide between
> libbabeltrace, barectf or spinning our own. With your goal of supporting
> mingw, it seems that libbabeltrace is the best idea.

You want to actually trace, that is, produce CTF events from your
application, or convert an existing trace format to CTF?

Phil

>
> We'll do what we can to provide patches.
>
> Thanks,
> Jonah
>
> On 15 Aug 2017 17:39, "Philippe Proulx" <eeppeliteloop at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 12:12 PM, Jonah Graham <jonah at kichwacoders.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > Over the years I have seen some discussions and patches about getting
>> > full MinGW support for babeltrace. I am interested in if someone can
>> > provide an overview of the current state of MinGW.
>> >
>> > I have tried to build 1.5.3 and (probably as expected) there are
>> > numerous compile issues (e.g. sys/mman.h)
>> >
>> > I have gotten further with current master (my primary interest is
>> > libbabeltrace so the issues I have with cli/babeltrace.c and
>> > tests/test_ctf_writer.c don't concern me too much yet). However when I
>> > try to run a simple example (that works on Linux) it fails on
>> > bt_ctf_stream_flush. I will debug further to identify the problem.
>> > However If someone does have a mingw port working well any guidance on
>> > building would be much appreciated.
>>
>> MinGW support is on its way for the Babeltrace 2.0 release, but I'm
>> curious as to why your primary interest is libbabeltrace? Is it for CTF
>> writer or for the trace reading API?
>>
>> Phil
>>
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> > Jonah
>> >
>> >
>> > ~~~
>> > Jonah Graham
>> > Kichwa Coders Ltd.
>> > www.kichwacoders.com
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