compilation of SBCL (sbcl-2.2.0-51-g5b680b490) with ECL (21.2.1) fails on Mingw

[alexis rivera]

I failed to compile SBCL version sbcl-2.2.0-51-g5b680b490 using ECL version 21.2.1 on Mingw.
I executed the following command:
sh make.sh --xc-host='/home/ahriv/ecl_build/ecl.exe -norc' --prefix=/e/SBCL/latest_ecl

I get the following error:

;;; Loading "C:/Users/ahriv/Downloads/sbcl_latest/sbcl/obj/from-host/src/compiler/generic/genesis.fasc"

Condition of type: FILE-ERROR
Filesystem error with pathname "obj/from-xc/tls-init.lisp-expr".
Either
 1) the file does not exist, or
 2) we are not allowed to access the file, or
 3) the pathname points to a broken symbolic link.
Available restarts:

1. (ABORT-BUILD) Abort building SBCL.
2. (RESTART-TOPLEVEL) Go back to Top-Level REPL.

Broken at SB-COLD:READ-FROM-FILE. In: #<process TOP-LEVEL 0x1686bd50f80>.
 File: #P"C:/Users/ahriv/Downloads/sbcl_latest/sbcl/src/cold/shared.lisp" (Position #9637)
>>
//testing for consistency of first and second GENESIS passes
//no diffutils, not testing

real 74m29.826s
user 0m0.046s
sys 0m0.091s
//entering make-target-2.sh
//doing warm init - compilation phase
This is SBCL sbcl-2.2.0-51-g5b680b490, an implementation of ANSI Common Lisp.
More information about SBCL is available at <http://www.sbcl.org/>.

SBCL is free software, provided as is, with absolutely no warranty.
It is mostly in the public domain; some portions are provided under
BSD-style licenses. See the CREDITS and COPYING files in the
distribution for more information.
open: No such file or directory
could not open file "output/cold-sbcl.core"

real 0m9.575s
user 0m0.015s
sys 0m0.061s

This is on windows 64-bit. The uname -a returns
MINGW64_NT-10.0-19043 DESKTOP-603BLJO 3.2.0-340.x86_64 2021-08-02 16:30 UTC x86_64 Msys

This was part of me trying to duplicate an error building SBCL with ECL on Termux. This failure is different. It goes a lot further though.

I will appreciate your guidance in trying to figure this out. Unless it is known that ECL cannot build SBCL.

Attached is a dump.txt file with the log of the compilation process.

Thanks,
Alexis

[Douglas Katzman (dougk)]

It says that ECL's C stack overflowed. I guess you need to enlarge it.
The ECL doc says this may not be easy: "On Windows, the stack size is set at build time and cannot be changed at runtime."
Also, try building SBCL with the option '--without-sb-unicode' which may help, given that it seems to have crashed on target-unicode.

[alexis rivera (riveraah)]

Ok. I saw in the log a comment about failing to allocate on stack at 10mb. I'm going to try to recompile ECL that with a stack size of 16mb (without specifying the --without-sb-unicode) and report back.

[alexis rivera (riveraah)]

I was able to compile SBCL on Mingw (64-bit windows) with ECL using the following settings:

Compiled ECL as follows:
./configure --prefix=/home/ahriv/ecl_build2 LDFLAGS="-Wl,--stack,16777216"

Configured SBCL as follows:
sh make.sh --xc-host='/home/ahriv/ecl_build2/ecl.exe --c-stack 16777216 -norc' --prefix=/e/SBCL/latest_ecl

I'm trying to get the Mingw (32-bit windows) working. I'm getting different errors. I will post a new bug report for that.

Thanks for your help. Now back to Termux.