Installing Rust on Windows via the installer may lead to linking failures/conflicts

[pcwiek]

At first glance, it looks like a PATH-related mingw issue. I may be wrong though, happy investigating! :)

Steps:

1. Install mingw first (or at least something that adds ld to PATH), in my case it came with Haskell 2013.2.0.0 for Windows.
2. Install Rust from the nightly Windows installer
3. Create any Rust program ('Hello world' is sufficient) and try to compile it.
4. Witness the aftermath.

---

F:\Rust\TestProj>rustc test.rs
error: linking with `gcc` failed: exit code: 1
note: gcc arguments: '-m32' '-LC:\Program Files (x86)\Rust\bin\rustlib\i686-pc-m
ingw32\lib' '-o' 'test' 'test.o' '-lmorestack' '-shared-libgcc' '-Wl,--enable-lo
ng-section-names' 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Rust\bin\rustlib\i686-pc-mingw32\lib\l
ibnative-83574243-0.11-pre.rlib' 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Rust\bin\rustlib\i686-p
c-mingw32\lib\libstd-aad93cea-0.11-pre.rlib' 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Rust\bin\ru
stlib\i686-pc-mingw32\lib\liblibc-3574b280-0.11-pre.rlib' '-LF:\Rust\TestProj\.r
ust' '-LF:\Rust\TestProj' '-Wl,-Bdynamic' '-lws2_32' '-lgcc_s' '-lcompiler-rt'
note: C:/Program Files (x86)/Haskell Platform/2013.2.0.0/mingw/bin/ld.exe: Dwarf
 Error: Offset (3168) greater than or equal to .debug_abbrev size (972).
C:\Program Files (x86)\Rust\bin\rustlib\i686-pc-mingw32\lib\libstd-aad93cea-0.11
-pre.rlib(r-rustrt-rust_builtin.o):rust_builtin.c:(.text+0x1d0): undefined refer
ence to `_gmtime32'
C:/Program Files (x86)/Haskell Platform/2013.2.0.0/mingw/bin/ld.exe: Dwarf Error
: found dwarf version '0', this reader only handles version 2, 3 and 4 informati
on.
C:\Program Files (x86)\Rust\bin\rustlib\i686-pc-mingw32\lib\libstd-aad93cea-0.11
-pre.rlib(r-rustrt-rust_builtin.o):rust_builtin.c:(.text+0x230): undefined refer
ence to `_localtime32'
C:/Program Files (x86)/Haskell Platform/2013.2.0.0/mingw/bin/ld.exe: Dwarf Error
: found dwarf version '20039', this reader only handles version 2, 3 and 4 infor
mation.
C:\Program Files (x86)\Rust\bin\rustlib\i686-pc-mingw32\lib\libstd-aad93cea-0.11
-pre.rlib(r-rustrt-rust_builtin.o):rust_builtin.c:(.text+0x41c): undefined refer
ence to `_mktime32'
C:/Program Files (x86)/Haskell Platform/2013.2.0.0/mingw/bin/ld.exe: Dwarf Error
: found dwarf version '8259', this reader only handles version 2, 3 and 4 inform
ation.
C:\Program Files (x86)\Rust\bin\rustlib\i686-pc-mingw32\lib\libstd-aad93cea-0.11
-pre.rlib(r-rustrt-rust_builtin.o):rust_builtin.c:(.text+0x44c): undefined refer
ence to `_mktime32'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

error: aborting due to previous error

This is HP's fault for putting a MinGW in the PATH. Windows users should manage their own precisely because of all these breakages.

[alexcrichton]

What's the version of gcc that haskell is providing you?

[pcwiek]

@alexcrichton: Short answer, GCC 4.5.2. Long answer:

ld

C:\Program Files (x86)\Haskell Platform\2013.2.0.0\mingw\bin>ld -v
GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.20.51.20100613

gcc

C:\Program Files (x86)\Haskell Platform\2013.2.0.0\mingw\bin>gcc -v
Using built-in specs.
COLLECT_GCC=C:\Program Files (x86)\Haskell Platform\2013.2.0.0\mingw\bin/realgcc
.exe
COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=C:/Program Files (x86)/Haskell Platform/2013.2.0.0/mingw/bin
/../libexec/gcc/mingw32/4.5.2/lto-wrapper.exe
Target: mingw32
Configured with: ../gcc-4.5.2/configure --enable-languages=c,c++,ada,fortran,obj
c,obj-c++ --disable-sjlj-exceptions --with-dwarf2 --enable-shared --enable-libgo
mp --disable-win32-registry --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-version-specific-r
untime-libs --disable-werror --build=mingw32 --prefix=/mingw
Thread model: win32
gcc version 4.5.2 (GCC)

[alexcrichton]

It sounds like this is using an outdated version of mingw that rust no longer supports. I would recommend installing a more recent version of mingw-w64 and having that be farther up in your path than the Haskell version.

[pcwiek]

Will do.

I don't know if it's a feasible option, but maybe the installer could be made completely standalone, with all dependencies bundled, for 1.0 release? Just some food for thought.

[brson]

@pcwiek It's intended that by 1.0 the windows install will have no external mingw dependency.

[brson]

That's #11782

[lilianmoraru]

I had about the same problems. Had in the PATH set first MinGW 4.7.2 but then I switched it to the MinGW 4.8.2 that Qt comes with and all works good...

[nstoddard]

I'm having the same problem. I'm using the 32-bit version of Rust and I have MinGW installed in C:\MinGW. If I move the MinGW directory to somewhere else, or rename it to something else, it works. Here's the log I'm getting when it fails:

error: linking with `gcc` failed: exit code: 1
note: gcc '-m32' '-L' 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Rust\bin\rustlib\i686-w64-mingw32\lib' '-o' 'test.exe' 'test.o' '-Wl,--whole-archive' '-lmorestack' '-Wl,--no-whole-archive' '-fno-lto' '-fno-use-linker-plugin' '-Wl,--gc-sections' '-shared-libgcc' '-Wl,--enable-long-section-names' '-Wl,--nxcompat' '-Wl,--large-address-aware' 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Rust\bin\rustlib\i686-w64-mingw32\lib\libnative-4e7c5e5c.rlib' 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Rust\bin\rustlib\i686-w64-mingw32\lib\libstd-4e7c5e5c.rlib' 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Rust\bin\rustlib\i686-w64-mingw32\lib\libsync-4e7c5e5c.rlib' 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Rust\bin\rustlib\i686-w64-mingw32\lib\librustrt-4e7c5e5c.rlib' 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Rust\bin\rustlib\i686-w64-mingw32\lib\libcollections-4e7c5e5c.rlib' 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Rust\bin\rustlib\i686-w64-mingw32\lib\liballoc-4e7c5e5c.rlib' 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Rust\bin\rustlib\i686-w64-mingw32\lib\liblibc-4e7c5e5c.rlib' 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Rust\bin\rustlib\i686-w64-mingw32\lib\librand-4e7c5e5c.rlib' 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Rust\bin\rustlib\i686-w64-mingw32\lib\libunicode-4e7c5e5c.rlib' 'C:\Program Files
(x86)\Rust\bin\rustlib\i686-w64-mingw32\lib\libcore-4e7c5e5c.rlib' '-L' 'C:\Users\Nathan\Dropbox\code\in-progress\test\.rust' '-L' 'C:\Users\Nathan\Dropbox\code\in-progress\test' '-Wl,--whole-archive' '-Wl,-Bstatic' '-Wl,--no-whole-archive' '-Wl,-Bdynamic' '-lws2_32' '-lcompiler-rt'
note: C:\Program Files (x86)\Rust\bin\rustlib\i686-w64-mingw32\lib\libstd-4e7c5e5c.rlib(r-rust_builtin-rust_builtin.o): In function `gmtime':
c:/program files (x86)/mingw-w64/i686-4.8.1-win32-dwarf-rt_v3-rev2/mingw32/i686-w64-mingw32/include/time.h:240: undefined reference to `_gmtime32'
C:\Program Files (x86)\Rust\bin\rustlib\i686-w64-mingw32\lib\libstd-4e7c5e5c.rlib(r-rust_builtin-rust_builtin.o): In function `localtime':
c:/program files (x86)/mingw-w64/i686-4.8.1-win32-dwarf-rt_v3-rev2/mingw32/i686-w64-mingw32/include/time.h:238: undefined reference to `_localtime32'
C:\Program Files (x86)\Rust\bin\rustlib\i686-w64-mingw32\lib\libstd-4e7c5e5c.rlib(r-rust_builtin-rust_builtin.o): In function `mktime':
c:/program files (x86)/mingw-w64/i686-4.8.1-win32-dwarf-rt_v3-rev2/mingw32/i686-w64-mingw32/include/time.h:239: undefined reference to `_mktime32'
c:/program files (x86)/mingw-w64/i686-4.8.1-win32-dwarf-rt_v3-rev2/mingw32/i686-w64-mingw32/include/time.h:239: undefined reference to `_mktime32'
collect2.exe: error: ld returned 1 exit status

[steveklabnik]

Is this still happening for people?

[vadimcn]

@pcwiek, Windows installer is standalone now, can you please verify that it fixed your problem?

[pcwiek]

@vadimcn Can't seem to reproduce the same issue anymore; seems to be fixed for me!

[steveklabnik]

Great! If it still happens for anyone else, please let me knowl