Nothing builds under latest nightly release on windows

[bryal]

Whatever the code being compiled, ld complains about not finding crt2.o, crtbegin.o, and crtend.o, even though these files should all be found by GCC, and is so on beta.

E:\Dropbox\Program\Rust\test-rs
λ set PATH=C:/Program Files/Rust nightly/bin/

E:\Dropbox\Program\Rust\test-rs
λ rustc -V
rustc 1.1.0-nightly (c42c1e7a6 2015-05-02) (built 2015-05-02)

E:\Dropbox\Program\Rust\test-rs
λ echo fn main() { println!("test") } | rustc -
error: linking with `gcc` failed: exit code: 1
note: "gcc" "-Wl,--enable-long-section-names" "-fno-use-linker-plugin" "-Wl,--nxcompat" "-static-libgcc" "-m64" "-L" "C:\Program Files\Rust nightly\bin\rustlib\x86_64-pc-windows-gnu\lib" "-o" "rust_out.exe" "rust_out.o" "-Wl,--gc-sections" "C:\Program Files\Rust nightly\bin\rustlib\x86_64-pc-windows-gnu\lib\libstd-4e7c5e5c.rlib" "C:\Program Files\Rust nightly\bin\rustlib\x86_64-pc-windows-gnu\lib\libcollections-4e7c5e5c.rlib" "C:\Program Files\Rust nightly\bin\rustlib\x86_64-pc-windows-gnu\lib\librustc_unicode-4e7c5e5c.rlib" "C:\Program Files\Rust nightly\bin\rustlib\x86_64-pc-windows-gnu\lib\librand-4e7c5e5c.rlib" "C:\Program Files\Rust nightly\bin\rustlib\x86_64-pc-windows-gnu\lib\liballoc-4e7c5e5c.rlib" "C:\Program Files\Rust nightly\bin\rustlib\x86_64-pc-windows-gnu\lib\liblibc-4e7c5e5c.rlib" "C:\Program Files\Rust nightly\bin\rustlib\x86_64-pc-windows-gnu\lib\libcore-4e7c5e5c.rlib" "-L" "\\?\C:\Program Files\Rust nightly\bin\rustlib\x86_64-pc-windows-gnu\lib" "-L" "E:\Dropbox\Program\Rust\test-rs\.rust\bin\x86_64-pc-windows-gnu" "-L" "E:\Dropbox\Program\Rust\test-rs\bin\x86_64-pc-windows-gnu" "-Wl,--whole-archive" "-Wl,-Bstatic" "-Wl,--no-whole-archive" "-Wl,-Bdynamic" "-lws2_32" "-luserenv" "-lcompiler-rt"
note: ld: cannot find crt2.o: No such file or directory
ld: cannot find crtbegin.o: No such file or directory
ld: cannot find crtend.o: No such file or directory

error: aborting due to previous error

E:\Dropbox\Program\Rust\test-rs
λ set PATH=C:/Program Files/Rust beta/bin/

E:\Dropbox\Program\Rust\test-rs
λ rustc -V
rustc 1.0.0-beta.3 (5241bf9c3 2015-04-25) (built 2015-04-25)

E:\Dropbox\Program\Rust\test-rs
λ echo fn main() { println!("test") } | rustc -

E:\Dropbox\Program\Rust\test-rs
λ rust_out.exe
test

As can be seen in the log, the crt files are not found, even though the "-L" "C:\Program Files\Rust nightly\bin\rustlib\x86_64-pc-windows-gnu\lib" option is set for gcc, and the files do exist:

C:\Users\Johan
λ ls -l "C:/Program Files/Rust nightly/bin/rustlib/x86_64-pc-windows-gnu/lib/" | grep crt
-rw-r--r-- 1 Johan Users     5770 May  2 04:43 crt2.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 Johan Users      450 May  2 04:43 crtbegin.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 Johan Users      450 May  2 04:43 crtend.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 Johan Users     3473 May  2 04:43 dllcrt2.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 Johan Users   962194 May  2 04:43 libmsvcrt.a
-rw-r--r-- 1 Johan Users   418504 May  2 04:43 librpcrt4.a

I'm even more confused by the fact that everything works fine on rust beta, even though the setup is the same.

edit: I am running this with 64-bit versions of rust nightly and rust beta

[Diggsey]

I can reproduce this, but only if I invoke "rustc" from 32-bit versions of cygwin or msys2/mingw. If I run it via windows cmd, or the 64-bit versions it works fine.

edit:
I realised the problem: either windows or the terminal itself is rewriting "Program Files" to "Program Files (x86)" when in 32-bit mode, resulting in the object files not being found.

[tomaka]

Appveyor builds of official crates have been failing because of this issue, for example: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/alexcrichton/time

It's a regression, as it used to work until last week or so: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/alexcrichton/time/history

[RinCamelia]

Tested this issue on

rustc 1.1.0-nightly (435622028 2015-05-04) (built 2015-05-05)

and I still get the above reported issue with this project. Waiting for latest nightly build to test and see if it works there. My version of the error log:

$>cargo build
   Compiling unicode-segmentation v0.1.0
   Compiling rustc-serialize v0.3.14
   Compiling regex v0.1.30
   Compiling libc v0.1.6
   Compiling rand v0.3.8 (https://github.com/rust-lang/rand.git#93544850)
   Compiling word_generator v0.0.1
             (file:///C:/Users/Sean/Documents/Rust%20Projects/word_generator)
error: linking with `gcc` failed: exit code: 1
note: "gcc" "-Wl,--enable-long-section-names" "-fno-use-linker-plugin" "-Wl,--nxcompat" "-static-libgcc" "-m64" "-L" "C:\Rust\bin\rustlib\x86_64-pc-windows-gnu\lib" "-o" "C:\Users\Sean\Documents\Rust Projects\word_generator\target\debug\word_generator.exe" "C:\Users\Sean\Documents\Rust Projects\word_generator\target\debug\word_generator.o" "-Wl,--gc-sections" "C:\Users\Sean\Documents\Rust Projects\word_generator\target\debug\deps\librustc_serialize-9ef26f158d5284e0.rlib" "C:\Users\Sean\Documents\Rust Projects\word_generator\target\debug\deps\libunicode_segmentation-57da89e19b25ee00.rlib" "C:\Users\Sean\Documents\Rust Projects\word_generator\target\debug\deps\libregex-3bea3061fd389532.rlib" "C:\Users\Sean\Documents\Rust Projects\word_generator\target\debug\deps\librand-3b6646ffd596e899.rlib" "C:\Users\Sean\Documents\Rust Projects\word_generator\target\debug\deps\liblibc-9b7976990ae0dbd4.rlib" "C:\Rust\bin\rustlib\x86_64-pc-windows-gnu\lib\libstd-4e7c5e5c.rlib" "C:\Rust\bin\rustlib\x86_64-pc-windows-gnu\lib\libcollections-4e7c5e5c.rlib" "C:\Rust\bin\rustlib\x86_64-pc-windows-gnu\lib\librustc_unicode-4e7c5e5c.rlib" "C:\Rust\bin\rustlib\x86_64-pc-windows-gnu\lib\librand-4e7c5e5c.rlib" "C:\Rust\bin\rustlib\x86_64-pc-windows-gnu\lib\liballoc-4e7c5e5c.rlib" "C:\Rust\bin\rustlib\x86_64-pc-windows-gnu\lib\liblibc-4e7c5e5c.rlib" "C:\Rust\bin\rustlib\x86_64-pc-windows-gnu\lib\libcore-4e7c5e5c.rlib" "-L" "C:\Users\Sean\Documents\Rust Projects\word_generator\target\debug" "-L" "C:\Users\Sean\Documents\Rust Projects\word_generator\target\debug\deps" "-L" "C:\Rust\bin\rustlib\x86_64-pc-windows-gnu\lib" "-L" "C:\Users\Sean\Documents\Rust Projects\word_generator\.rust\bin\x86_64-pc-windows-gnu" "-L" "C:\Users\Sean\Documents\Rust Projects\word_generator\bin\x86_64-pc-windows-gnu" "-Wl,--whole-archive" "-Wl,-Bstatic" "-Wl,--no-                whole-archive" "-Wl,-Bdynamic" "-lws2_32" "-luserenv" "-lcompiler-rt"
note: ld: cannot find crt2.o: No such file or directory
ld: cannot find crtbegin.o: No such file or directory
ld: cannot find crtend.o: No such file or directory

error: aborting due to previous error
Could not compile `word_generator`.

To learn more, run the command again with --verbose.

[retep998]

For the record I am using a locally built Rust and I do not get the error. Therefore this bug may be a symptom of the way the nightlies are being packaged.

Peter@Win81-SSD MINGW64 ~/word_generator
$ cargo build
    Updating git repository `https://github.com/rust-lang/rand.git`
 Downloading unicode-segmentation v0.1.0
   Compiling regex v0.1.30
   Compiling rustc-serialize v0.3.14
   Compiling unicode-segmentation v0.1.0
   Compiling libc v0.1.6
   Compiling rand v0.3.8 (https://github.com/rust-lang/rand.git#93544850)
   Compiling word_generator v0.0.1 (file:///C:/msys64/home/Peter/word_generator)

Peter@Win81-SSD MINGW64 ~/word_generator
$ rustc -vV
rustc 1.1.0-dev (31e3cb7c4 2015-05-05) (built 2015-05-05)
binary: rustc
commit-hash: 31e3cb7c4e8895fff23aa67e1cd6b58d798cdac4
commit-date: 2015-05-05
build-date: 2015-05-05
host: x86_64-pc-windows-gnu
release: 1.1.0-dev

[tomaka]

@retep998 Maybe this doesn't happen if you have MinGW installed separately.

[retep998]

Yep, it seems it is the bundled MinGW that is broken

C:\msys64\home\Peter\word_generator>cargo build
    Updating git repository `https://github.com/rust-lang/rand.git`
    Updating registry `https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index`
 Downloading libc v0.1.6
 Downloading rustc-serialize v0.3.14
 Downloading unicode-segmentation v0.1.0
 Downloading regex v0.1.30
   Compiling unicode-segmentation v0.1.0
   Compiling rustc-serialize v0.3.14
   Compiling libc v0.1.6
   Compiling regex v0.1.30
   Compiling rand v0.3.8 (https://github.com/rust-lang/rand.git#93544850)
   Compiling word_generator v0.0.1 (file:///C:/msys64/home/Peter/word_generator)
error: linking with `gcc` failed: exit code: 1
note: "gcc" "-Wl,--enable-long-section-names" "-fno-use-linker-plugin" "-Wl,--nxcompat" "-static-lib
gcc" "-m64" "-L" "C:\Rust64\bin\rustlib\x86_64-pc-windows-gnu\lib" "-o" "C:\msys64\home\Peter\word_g
enerator\target\debug\word_generator.exe" "C:\msys64\home\Peter\word_generator\target\debug\word_gen
erator.o" "-Wl,--gc-sections" "C:\msys64\home\Peter\word_generator\target\debug\deps\librustc_serial
ize-9ef26f158d5284e0.rlib" "C:\msys64\home\Peter\word_generator\target\debug\deps\libunicode_segment
ation-57da89e19b25ee00.rlib" "C:\msys64\home\Peter\word_generator\target\debug\deps\libregex-3bea306
1fd389532.rlib" "C:\msys64\home\Peter\word_generator\target\debug\deps\librand-3b6646ffd596e899.rlib
" "C:\msys64\home\Peter\word_generator\target\debug\deps\liblibc-9b7976990ae0dbd4.rlib" "C:\Rust64\b
in\rustlib\x86_64-pc-windows-gnu\lib\libstd-4e7c5e5c.rlib" "C:\Rust64\bin\rustlib\x86_64-pc-windows-
gnu\lib\libcollections-4e7c5e5c.rlib" "C:\Rust64\bin\rustlib\x86_64-pc-windows-gnu\lib\librustc_unic
ode-4e7c5e5c.rlib" "C:\Rust64\bin\rustlib\x86_64-pc-windows-gnu\lib\librand-4e7c5e5c.rlib" "C:\Rust6
4\bin\rustlib\x86_64-pc-windows-gnu\lib\liballoc-4e7c5e5c.rlib" "C:\Rust64\bin\rustlib\x86_64-pc-win
dows-gnu\lib\liblibc-4e7c5e5c.rlib" "C:\Rust64\bin\rustlib\x86_64-pc-windows-gnu\lib\libcore-4e7c5e5
c.rlib" "-L" "C:\msys64\home\Peter\word_generator\target\debug" "-L" "C:\msys64\home\Peter\word_gene
rator\target\debug\deps" "-L" "C:\Rust64\bin\rustlib\x86_64-pc-windows-gnu\lib" "-L" "C:\msys64\home
\Peter\word_generator\.rust\bin\x86_64-pc-windows-gnu" "-L" "C:\msys64\home\Peter\word_generator\bin
\x86_64-pc-windows-gnu" "-Wl,--whole-archive" "-Wl,-Bstatic" "-Wl,--no-whole-archive" "-Wl,-Bdynamic
" "-lws2_32" "-luserenv" "-lcompiler-rt"
note: ld: cannot find crt2.o: No such file or directory
ld: cannot find crtbegin.o: No such file or directory
ld: cannot find crtend.o: No such file or directory

error: aborting due to previous error
Could not compile `word_generator`.

To learn more, run the command again with --verbose.

C:\msys64\home\Peter\word_generator>rustc -vV
rustc 1.1.0-nightly (435622028 2015-05-04) (built 2015-05-05)
binary: rustc
commit-hash: 435622028f37085819843f4ac8938557501f0468
commit-date: 2015-05-04
build-date: 2015-05-05
host: x86_64-pc-windows-gnu
release: 1.1.0-nightly

If I install that nightly with the bundled MinGW and invoke it from cmd.exe then it gets the error.
If I install that nightly without the bundled MinGW and use the one provided by Msys2 instead, then everything works fine.