[Developers] Serious bug in ADMB 11.1 for Windows (GCC)

[Johnoel Ancheta]

Thank you for reporting it.  It has been corrected in version control.
 Please test
and provide feedback.


On 6/25/13, Arni Magnusson <arnima at hafro.is> wrote:
> The official ADMB release for Windows (GCC)
> http://admb-project.googlecode.com/files/admb-11.1-windows-mingw-32bit.zip
> has a serious bug. The most basic test fails spectacularly. Not only does
>
>    tpl2cpp simple
>    adcomp simple
>    adlink simple
>
> fail to build an executable, but it even removes a system library
> 'libcontribo.a' from the hard drive. Hold on, this new feature could be
> good for our download statistics...
>
> As you can see below, the adlink.bat script produces a bad command that
> asks GCC to compile nothing and then write the output to libcontribo.a.
> Overwriting the file with a null, it dutifully shreds the library.
>
> Ignore the misleading error message from adlink below, but focus on the
> g++ command that is missing the important elements 'simple' and
> 'simple.obj':
>
> C:\simple>tpl2cpp simple
> xxglobal.tmp
> xxhtop.tmp
> header.tmp
> xxalloc.tmp
> xxtopm.tmp
>          1 file(s) copied.
>
> C:\simple>adcomp simple
> g++ -c  -O3 -D__GNUDOS__  -Dlinux -DOPT_LIB -DUSE_LAPLACE -fpermissive -I.
> -I"c:\admb\include" -I"c:\admb\contrib\include" -o simple.obj simple.cpp
>
> C:\simple>adlink simple
> g++ -s  -static  -o   "c:\admb\contrib\lib\libcontribo.a"
> "c:\admb\lib\libadmbo.a"
> c:/gnu/gcc/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.7.2/../../..\libmingw32.a(main.o):main.c:(.text.startup+0xa7):
>
> undefined reference to `WinMain at 16'
> collect2.exe: error: ld returned 1 exit status
>
> ---
>
> This will probably not be very hard to fix, but it means two things:
>
> 1. We should release 11.2 that passes the tpl2cpp->adcomp->adlink test.
>
> 2. We should add the test above as a Buildbot test, probably with more
> variations of script calls.
>
> Arni
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