Hello, I am having some really strange issues with building libraries.

I've never really had a lot of luck with building libraries, and I usually end up throwing all the source code into an Eclipse program and compiling.

Every time I run a makefile, I do it by opening cmd.exe, then type make, and I just get an error. If I type make mingw, as many libraries specify me to do, I also get errors, and the program failed to start correctly message pops up. I just don't know what I am supposed to do :|.

I really just don't get it... I have Mingw\bin, and MSYS/bin in my PATH variables, so I figured there wouldn't be any problems, but apparently there are. And no, the libraries don't require cmake.

For example, I am trying to compile the Lua libraries (which is supposed to be a very simple compile, apparently :|), and it just gives me this output:

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.3.9600]
(c) 2013 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\NULL>make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.

C:\Users\NULL>make mingw
make: *** No rule to make target `mingw'.  Stop.

C:\Users\NULL>cd C:\Users\NULL\Downloads\lua-5.2.3.tar\lua-5.2.3\lua-5.2.3

C:\Users\NULL\Downloads\lua-5.2.3.tar\lua-5.2.3\lua-5.2.3>make mingw
cd src && make mingw
make: *** [mingw] Error 66

C:\Users\NULL\Downloads\lua-5.2.3.tar\lua-5.2.3\lua-5.2.3>make
make: *** [none] Error 66

C:\Users\NULL\Downloads\lua-5.2.3.tar\lua-5.2.3\lua-5.2.3>make mingw
cd src && make mingw
make: *** [mingw] Error 66

C:\Users\NULL\Downloads\lua-5.2.3.tar\lua-5.2.3\lua-5.2.3>

Please help D:, I can't go on like this!!!1!

You need to run make (or mingw32-make as it is called in the MinGW destribution I use) in the directory that contains the Makefile. In this case this would be the "lua-5.2.3" folder (for some reason you have 2 or these, there should be only one after unzipping the archive).

btw: make mingw tells make to build a target called "mingw" so that's not going to work. ;)

That's what I was doing.. I went into the proper directory, and ran make.exe by entering make.d i'll try it with mingw32-make.

EDIT: It didn't work :/. Even when I changed the files.

here is my code:

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.3.9600]
(c) 2013 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\NULL>cd C:\Users\NULL\Downloads\lua-5.2.3.tar\lua-5.2.3\lua-5.2.3

C:\Users\NULL\Downloads\lua-5.2.3.tar\lua-5.2.3\lua-5.2.3>mingw32-make
Please do 'make PLATFORM' where PLATFORM is one of these:
   aix ansi bsd freebsd generic linux macosx mingw posix solaris
See doc/readme.html for complete instructions.

C:\Users\NULL\Downloads\lua-5.2.3.tar\lua-5.2.3\lua-5.2.3>mingw32-make mingw
cd src && mingw32-make mingw
      0 [main] sh 3780 sync_with_child: child 11864(0x164) died before initializ
ation with status code 0xC0000142
    147 [main] sh 3780 sync_with_child: *** child state waiting for longjmp
/usr/bin/sh: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
Makefile:55: recipe for target 'mingw' failed
mingw32-make: *** [mingw] Error 128

C:\Users\NULL\Downloads\lua-5.2.3.tar\lua-5.2.3\lua-5.2.3>

Strange. On my machine it compiles without any problems. What distribution of MinGW do you use? The "/usr/bin/sh" part looks like Cygwin to me. If it is I can't really help you as I never used it before.

I used the version that was provided in the download link on the main website, I don't know how to check the version. I downloaded the installer, and even updated it. I'm pretty sure i'm using MinGW. I checked the files.

I just wish someone would show me a step by step guide on how to run a simple makefile, like the Lua makefile. I know how to build code using g++ -o XXX commands, but this stuff is a bit more advanced.

Or better yet, I would like to know why I am getting this error.

UPDATE:

Well, I reinstalled MSYS, and this time installed it into the right directory, and now I get these errors when trying to compile the Lua libraries:

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.3.9600]
(c) 2013 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\NULL>cd C:\Users\NULL\Downloads\lua-5.2.3

C:\Users\NULL\Downloads\lua-5.2.3>make
Please do 'make PLATFORM' where PLATFORM is one of these:
   aix ansi bsd freebsd generic linux macosx mingw posix solaris
See doc/readme.html for complete instructions.

C:\Users\NULL\Downloads\lua-5.2.3>make mingw
cd src && make mingw
make[1]: Entering directory `/c/Users/NULL/Downloads/lua-5.2.3/src'
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `mingw'.  Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/c/Users/NULL/Downloads/lua-5.2.3/src'
make: *** [mingw] Error 2

C:\Users\NULL\Downloads\lua-5.2.3>mingw32-make
Please do 'make PLATFORM' where PLATFORM is one of these:
   aix ansi bsd freebsd generic linux macosx mingw posix solaris
See doc/readme.html for complete instructions.

C:\Users\NULL\Downloads\lua-5.2.3>mingw32-make mingw
cd src && mingw32-make mingw
mingw32-make[1]: Entering directory 'c:/Users/NULL/Downloads/lua-5.2.3/src'
mingw32-make[1]: *** No rule to make target 'mingw'.  Stop.
mingw32-make[1]: Leaving directory 'c:/Users/NULL/Downloads/lua-5.2.3/src'
Makefile:55: recipe for target 'mingw' failed
mingw32-make: *** [mingw] Error 2

C:\Users\NULL\Downloads\lua-5.2.3>

Well, there very obviously is a mingw target, so your mingw32-make is completely broken, if this is the same lua-5.2.3 I am looking at. Try mingw32-make posix? Also try running the "cd src && mingw32-make mingw" command manually. Also try running a simpler, basic makefile, and see if the same error occurs.