Error when make build

[Nafidinara]

Hello, I'm always getting error when try to run make build. this is the detail :
go build -ldflags="-s -w" -buildmode c-shared -o .build/uplink.so. runtime/cgo cgo-builtin-prolog:1: stddef.h: No such file or directory make: *** [build] Error 2
Can you help me how to solve this?

[Nafidinara]

[ifraixedes]

Hello @Nafidinara,

Can you provide details of your environment (OS version, etc.), please?

[mniewrzal]

Also, could you give us an output of make -v command?

[Nafidinara]

OS : Windows 10
Go version : go1.18.2 windows/amd64

and this when I run make -v
GNU Make 3.82 Built for i686-pc-mingw32 Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

[Erikvv]

I wonder if you may need to install the Windows SDK (https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/windows-sdk/)

[Erikvv]

For github.com/TopperDEL/uplink.net our friend installs MSYS2 and within that installs the package group mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain. This also supplies stddef.h.

[egonelbre]

I've found that https://jmeubank.github.io/tdm-gcc/ is usually the easiest way to get C compiling to work with Go + Windows. This assumes it doesn't need to link to external libs (e.g. portaudio) -- in other words, it should work fine with uplink-c.

[ifraixedes]

I'm wondering what we have to do to close this issue.
Should we document something in the README about compiling it in Windows?

I'm also wondering how the current build target can generate a DLL for windows.