cross: x86_64-windows-gnu - WritingImportLibFailed

[kassane]

Tested on ArchLinux (x86_64/zen3)

• llvm-host: ok
• zig-host: ok
• zlib-$(target)-$(cpu): ok
• zstd-$(target)-$(cpu): ok
• llvm-$(target)-$(cpu): ok
• zig-$(target)-$(cpu): fail

Note: any other target macos and/or linux works, no issue!

$ ./build x86_64-windows-gnu baseline
install
└─ install zig
   └─ zig build-exe zig ReleaseFast x86_64-windows-gnu 1 errors
error: unable to generate DLL import .lib file for crypt32: WritingImportLibFailed
error: error(mingw): unable to turn version.def into version.lib
error(mingw): unable to turn ole32.def into ole32.lib
error(mingw): unable to turn ws2_32.def into ws2_32.lib
error(mingw): unable to turn api-ms-win-crt-conio-l1-1-0.def into api-ms-win-crt-conio-l1-1-0.lib
error(mingw): unable to turn api-ms-win-crt-convert-l1-1-0.def into api-ms-win-crt-convert-l1-1-0.lib
error(mingw): unable to turn api-ms-win-crt-environment-l1-1-0.def into api-ms-win-crt-environment-l1-1-0.lib
error(mingw): unable to turn api-ms-win-crt-filesystem-l1-1-0.def into api-ms-win-crt-filesystem-l1-1-0.lib
error(mingw): unable to turn api-ms-win-crt-heap-l1-1-0.def into api-ms-win-crt-heap-l1-1-0.lib
error(mingw): unable to turn api-ms-win-crt-locale-l1-1-0.def into api-ms-win-crt-locale-l1-1-0.lib
error(mingw): unable to turn api-ms-win-crt-math-l1-1-0.def into api-ms-win-crt-math-l1-1-0.lib
error(mingw): unable to turn api-ms-win-crt-multibyte-l1-1-0.def into api-ms-win-crt-multibyte-l1-1-0.lib
error(mingw): unable to turn api-ms-win-crt-private-l1-1-0.def into api-ms-win-crt-private-l1-1-0.lib
error(mingw): unable to turn api-ms-win-crt-process-l1-1-0.def into api-ms-win-crt-process-l1-1-0.lib
error(mingw): unable to turn api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.def into api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.lib
error(mingw): unable to turn api-ms-win-crt-stdio-l1-1-0.def into api-ms-win-crt-stdio-l1-1-0.lib
error(mingw): unable to turn api-ms-win-crt-string-l1-1-0.def into api-ms-win-crt-string-l1-1-0.lib
error(mingw): unable to turn api-ms-win-crt-time-l1-1-0.def into api-ms-win-crt-time-l1-1-0.lib
error(mingw): unable to turn api-ms-win-crt-utility-l1-1-0.def into api-ms-win-crt-utility-l1-1-0.lib
error(mingw): unable to turn advapi32.def into advapi32.lib
error(mingw): unable to turn kernel32.def into kernel32.lib
error(mingw): unable to turn ntdll.def into ntdll.lib
error(mingw): unable to turn shell32.def into shell32.lib
error(mingw): unable to turn user32.def into user32.lib
error(mingw): unable to turn crypt32.def into crypt32.lib

error: the following command failed with 1 compilation errors:
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-Mbuild_options=/home/kassane/zig-bootstrap/zig/.zig-cache/c/693995afb687fc319b6a31b36e3f4d0f/options.zig -lc++ -lc --cache-dir /home/kassane/zig-bootstrap/zig/.zig-cache --global-cache-dir /home/kassane/.cache/zig --name zig -L /home/kassane/zig-bootstrap/out/x86_64-windows-gnu-baseline/lib -I /home/kassane/zig-bootstrap/out/x86_64-windows-gnu-baseline/include --zig-lib-dir /home/kassane/zig-bootstrap/out/host/lib/zig/ -fno-lto --listen=- 
Build Summary: 4/7 steps succeeded; 1 failed
install transitive failure
└─ install zig transitive failure
   └─ zig build-exe zig ReleaseFast x86_64-windows-gnu 1 errors
error: the following build command failed with exit code 1:
/home/kassane/zig-bootstrap/zig/.zig-cache/o/ad9a0af8fd28e444bdb5213fe9a5ef3f/build /home/kassane/zig-bootstrap/out/host/bin/zig /home/kassane/zig-bootstrap/out/host/lib/zig /home/kassane/zig-bootstrap/zig /home/kassane/zig-bootstrap/zig/.zig-cache /home/kassane/.cache/zig --seed 0x8f66a735 -Z6732ef3e02f43601 --prefix /home/kassane/zig-bootstrap/out/zig-x86_64-windows-gnu-baseline --search-prefix /home/kassane/zig-bootstrap/out/x86_64-windows-gnu-baseline -Dflat -Dstatic-llvm -Doptimize=ReleaseFast -Dno-langref -Dskip-release -Dskip-debug -Dskip-non-native -Dstrip -Dtarget=x86_64-windows-gnu -Dcpu=baseline -Dversion-string=0.14.0-dev.1622+2ac543388

[alexrp]

FWIW, this works for me on Ubuntu 23.10 (x86_64). You'll have to step into LLVM to figure out what's going wrong:

https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/d83a3f1746c81026d1cf0244156513c9b5a2a9f6/src/mingw.zig#L285-L289