Trouble with building LDC on Windows, specifically with building libconfig

[Kai Nacke via digitalmars-d-ldc]

On Monday, 13 July 2015 at 05:39:40 UTC, Eappen Nelluvelil wrote:
> Hello, I am trying to build LDC on my machine (Windows 7 
> x86_64), but I am running into some trouble with building 
> libconfig.
>
> I am using msys2-i686, along with the compilers and tools 
> provided via msys2 (gcc/g++ 4.9.2 and make 4.1). This is a 
> slight change from the D wiki instructions on building LDC on 
> Windows, as the instructions assumed the usage of msys (I am 
> not sure if this change breaks the build process). I downloaded 
> libconfig-1.5, and when I am in a bash instance via msys2, the 
> configure script within the root level runs perfectly fine. 
> However, when I issue the command make, the build stops due to 
> some failing tests. I am not sure if I am doing something 
> incorrectly or if I need to follow different directions to 
> build libconfig successfully on my machine.
>
> If it is of any help, I have created a gist of the output given 
> when make is run:
> https://gist.github.com/anonymous/fe03f33ab7fd59ed47fe
>
> If anyone could help me out with this issue, I would be 
> eternally grateful.

Hi Eappen,

please try building with libconfig-1.4.9 (the previous version). 
I had some trouble with libconfig-1.5, too, and did not yet have 
the time to investigate.

Regards,
Kai